Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small piece of inclosed ground.
- To eat with little appetite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A small piece of inclosed ground.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete, UK, dialect A small piece of enclosed ground.
Etymologies
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Perhaps from pin to impound.
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Examples
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went ahead and put a pingle (ph) shifter on it, so now all you will have to do to shift is there will be a button up here.
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No foundation is required for walls erected by the plan of stooting, but a damp-course of mulpin is advisable, and it is always best to pingle the door-jambs, and binge up the rafters with a crumping-block.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 Various 1898
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"It's allus mustard, mustard, stuck about you to pingle and sting if there's owt the matter.
A Life's Eclipse George Manville Fenn 1870
she commented on the word pingle
To eat with very little appetite.
July 11, 2008
yarb commented on the word pingle
As long as they haue either oyle or wine, this plague feedes but pinglingly vpon them.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010