ingle
See also: Ingle
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Uncertain; perhaps from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”).
Noun edit
ingle (plural ingles)
- (obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
- 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:
- Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Unknown.
Alternative forms edit
Noun edit
ingle (plural ingles)
- A catamite; a male lover
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:
- What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:
- Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.
- 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318:
- My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!
Verb edit
ingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)
- (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
- 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
- Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it
References edit
“ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin inguinem. Cognate with English inguen.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ingle f (plural ingles)
Further reading edit
- “ingle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014