English Explanatory Dictionary

pingle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small piece of enclosed ground.
verb
  1. To eat with a feeble appetite.
  2. To dawdle.
  3. To struggle; to work with great effort.
  4. to bother or create work for.
  5. To struggle or squabble.
  6. To spoil
noun
  1. An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.
noun
  1. A small pot with a lid.
verb
  1. To make a light, ringing, percussive sound.
name
  1. A surname.

Word forms

pingle pingles pingling pingled

Etymology

Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).

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