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.

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  • 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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2007 2007

  • 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

  • "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

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  • To eat with very little appetite.

    July 11, 2008

  • 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