pingle
Americanverb (used without object)
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Scot.. to work terribly hard; strive or struggle against adversity.
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North England. to pick at one's food as if disinterested or not hungry.
verb (used with object)
noun
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North England. a small enclosed field or paddock.
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Scot.. Also pingle-pan. a saucepan or other small cooking pot, usually shallow and long-handled.
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Example Sentences
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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 Hazlitt, William Carew
It’s allus mustard, mustard, stuck about you to pingle and sting if there’s owt the matter.
From A Life's Eclipse by Nash, J.
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