Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An open fire in a fireplace.
- noun A fireplace.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fire; flame; blaze.
- noun A household fire or fireplace.
- To wheedle; coax.
- noun A favorite, particularly a male favorite, in a bad sense; a paramour.
- noun In a general sense, a person beloved; a friend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle.
- transitive verb obsolete To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See
engle . - noun Obs. or Scot. Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace.
- noun the chimney corner.
- noun the fireside.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
catamite . - verb obsolete To
cajole orcoax ; towheedle . - noun An
open fireplace .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And above the ingle was another slab of oak from the same tree.
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford 1906
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For example, ingle, meaning boy (= Ger. jüngling), has been wholly obliterated by the English word.
Appendix 2. Non-English Dialects in America. 4. Yiddish Henry Louis 1921
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For Michael Waltrip, it represented the best and worst luck compressed into a s ingle minute.
Years After Earnhardt's Death, Waltrip Talks Matthew Futterman 2011
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Have you heard about the latest survey of s ingle people?
Bella DePaulo: Latest Survey of Singles: This Is How Stereotypes Are Perpetuated Bella DePaulo 2011
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At NCVO, we are looking at how we can work constructively with other networks to identify gaps and opportunities, including connecting with our European national partners in ENNA.The EESC study group will prepare an exploratory opinion on social entrepreneurship for the section for the ingle market, production and consumption to be finalised in October, and the next public hearing will be in Brussels on 28 July.
The pursuit of pure profit is often not the best solution 2011
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I hate to throw cold water - but exactly where, in all those 'interpretations', is there as ingle new thought or reading of the situation that has not been articulated ad nauseum by every politico there is for over 4 weeks? gotalife:
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Bruce Sterling points to "the ingle most culturally incendiary Bollywood item-number I've yet seen (and yes, I've seen plenty)."
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[S] ingle mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993).
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[S] ingle mothers with dependent children have the highest rate of poverty across all demographic groups (Olson & Banyard, 1993).
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But I maun speak to this gabbling skyte too, for bairns and fules speak at the Cross what they hear at the ingle-side. —
Rob Roy 2005
trivet commented on the word ingle
An open fire in a fireplace.
A fireplace.
(Perhaps Scottish Gaelic aingeal, fire, light.)
August 21, 2007
reesetee commented on the word ingle
Nice word!
August 21, 2007
Prolagus commented on the word ingle
See also inglenook.
January 28, 2009