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See also: Ingle
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɪŋɡəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl
Etymology 1
[edit]Uncertain; perhaps from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”).
Noun
[edit]ingle (plural ingles)
- (obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:
- Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]ingle (plural ingles)
- A catamite; a male lover
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
- What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
- Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318:
- My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!
Verb
[edit]ingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)
- (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
- Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it
References
[edit]“ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Latin inguinem. Cognate with English inguen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ingle f (plural ingles)
Further reading
[edit]- “ingle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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