pringle
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
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to buckle or bend (a wheel, ring, or the like) into a saddle-like shape.
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to cause to feel a tingling or prickling sensation.
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You know what a barbecue Pringle paired with a pizza pringle tastes like?
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2018
The rain pringled upon my skin and hissed past my ears.
From The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I tell you, I fairly pringled all along my back.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
In the golden light and pringling air he felt excitable and high-strung.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
Anerley became conscious suddenly that there was a pringling about his skin and an overpowering smell of burned hair under his nostrils.
From The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Then, with a shake and a shrug of her bare, cloud-born shoulders, she sent Clashing and ringing below into space a bright silvery shower Flashing and pringling with light; which earth-men calléd shower of stars.
From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter
"I wish no better," said he, with a pringling in the eyes at this hearty greeting.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
She went forward, her back pringling with the consciousness of the sunny tableau upon which it was turned.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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