Pingler

Quick meaning: Pingler is a noun meaning (rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat.

Meaning

(rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat.

Example Sentences

A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler.

'"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped.

For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.

It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.

Word Forms

• pinglers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nibbler, piddler, pecker, pickeerer, gobbler, player.

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