cingle

English

Etymology

From Old French cengle (Modern French sangle), from Latin cingulum (“girdle”), from cingere (“to gird”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsɪŋɡəl/

Noun

cingle (plural cingles)

1. A kind of belt or other girdle.

   • 1990, A triangle of arcs, her slip, flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle. — Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers

French

Verb

cingle

1. first-person singular present indicative of cingler
2. third-person singular present indicative of cingler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
5. second-person singular imperative of cingler

Anagrams

• cligne, cligné