Pingle

Quick meaning: Pingle is a noun meaning (intransitive, UK, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.

Meaning

(intransitive, UK, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, UK, dialect) To dawdle.
2. (intransitive) To struggle; to work with great effort.
3. (transitive) to bother or create work for.
4. To struggle or squabble.
5. To spoil
6. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.
7. (obsolete) An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.

Example Sentences

This man complained of burning pains in the stomach, he pingled his food.

all this while when we haue beene at the Lords spirituall feasts, wee haue but pingled, and neuer made a good meale.

Martyn Browne, Esq., paid a fat turkey, or two shillings, in rent for a 'pingle'—a small piece of enclosed land—there.

This was the case with a pingle wall erected on the waste c. 1750 by the then owner of the Throckmorton—Murcott—Wheeler—Smith holding.

Word Forms

• pingles
• pingling
• pingled

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pightle, pightel, pintel, pintle, pikelin, pike.

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