pingle

American  

[ping-guhl] / ˈpɪŋ gəl /

verb (used without object)

pingled, pingling

1. Scot.. to work terribly hard; strive or struggle against adversity.

2. North England. to pick at one's food as if disinterested or not hungry.

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verb (used with object)

pingled, pingling

1. Scot.. to oppress, trouble, or worry (someone).

noun

1. North England. a small enclosed field or paddock.

2. Scot.. Also pingle-pan. a saucepan or other small cooking pot, usually shallow and long-handled.

Other Word Forms

• pingler
  noun

Example Sentences

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pingle pingling

Neither did he pingle, when it was set on the board, but for the space of three days and three nights never rose from the table.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt

It’s allus mustard, mustard, stuck about you to pingle and sting if there’s owt the matter.

From A Life's Eclipse by J. Nash

“Puley pingling things they are, and want as much care as children.”

From Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes by Robert Barnes