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
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
I heard them through a haze of blood beats in my ears and temples and my body was extraordinarily rigid and pringling and I was horribly breathless.
From Carnacki, the Ghost Finder by William Hope Hodgson
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
In the golden light and pringling air he felt excitable and high-strung.
From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley
The breeze would catch these foam-crests from time to time, and then there would be a sharp spatter upon the decks, with a salt smack upon the lips, and a pringling in the eyes.
From The Refugees by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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