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▪ I. pingle, n.1 Sc.|ˈpɪŋg(ə)l|
[f. pingle v.]
1. A keen contest or struggle.
1543St. Papers Hen. VIII, V. 237 note, [They made at each other, so that] with long pyngle with dagger [Somerset was slain]. 1719Hamilton in Ramsay's Fam. Epist. i. iv, 'Twad be a pingle, Whilk o' you three wad gar words sound And best to jingle. 1816Sir A. Boswell Skeldon Haughs Wks. (1871) 167 Now is the pingle, hand to hand. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 153 Papists and faes in dreidfu' pingle.
2. Struggle with difficulties; strenuous exertion.
1728Ramsay To R. Yarde 9 Skelping o'er frozen hags with pingle. 1786Har'st Rig lxx, He's in a pingle. 1871P. H. Waddell Ps. in Scottis xxxiii. 16 Nae mighty man [is] redd by his mighty pingle.
▪ II. pingle, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈpɪŋg(ə)l|
[Of uncertain origin: cf. pightle.]
A small enclosed piece of land; a paddock, a close.
1546Yorks. Chantry Surv. (Surtees) I. 154 Roger Blythe for one pyngle with..a gate thrugh the same. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 275 The Academie, a little pingle or plot of ground,..was the habitation of Plato, Xenocrates, and Polemon. 1633Sanderson Serm. II. 43 They thrust and pen up the whole flock of Christ in a far narrower pingle than ever the Donatists did. 1674Ray N.C. Words 37 A Pingle, a small croft or Picle. a1864J. Clare MS. Poems (E.D.D.), Meadow and close, and pingle: where suns cling And shine on earliest flowers.
▪ III. pingle, n.3 Sc.|ˈpɪŋg(ə)l|
[Origin unknown.]
A small pan or cooking-pot of tinned iron, having a long handle. Also pingle-pan.
1789D. Davidson Seasons 6 The pingle-pan Is on the ingle set. 1821Blackw. Mag. VIII. 429 You want a pingle, lassie [note, A small tin-made goblet, used in Scotland for preparing children's food]. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Pingle-pan, in Scotland, a small tin goblet with a long handle. 1863J. L. W. By-gone Days 192 Supplying the ‘gudewife’ with pitchers, or repairing her ‘pingle pans’.
▪ IV. pingle, v.
(ˈpɪŋg(ə)l, north. dial. ˈpɪŋ(ə)l)
Also 6 pingil(l, pingyl, pyngle.
[Origin obscure. Perhaps branches I and II are different words, I being only Sc. With II cf. Sw. dial. pyngla to be busy about small matters, to work in a trifling way (Rietz).]
I.
†1. intr. To strive, contend, vie. Sc. Obs.
1508Dunbar Flyting 114 Bettir thow ganis to leid ane doig to skomer.. than with thy maister pingill. 1513Douglas æneis i. iv. 14 To se the hewis on ather hand is wondir, For hicht that semis pingill with the hevin. 1635D. Dickson Pract. Wks. (1845) I. 27 They stood out long, pingling with God. 1789D. Davidson Seasons 36 How brithers pingled at their brochan, And made a din.
2. trans.
†a. To press hard in a contest, to run (any one) hard, to vie with (obs.).
b. To trouble, worry. Sc.
1513Douglas æneis v. iv. 122 Quhan finally to pursew he adrest, And pinglis hir [the ship] onto the vtirmest. c1587Montgomerie Sonn. xv. 14, I pingle thame all perfytlie in that parte [poverty]. a1600Ibid. xliv. 12 Let Mercure language to me len,..To pingill Apelles pynsell with my pen. 1814Scott Wav. xxiv, To be pingled wi' mickle speaking.
3. intr. To struggle against difficulties; to work hard, labour, toil, exert oneself; to struggle or toil for a livelihood. Sc.
1513Douglas æneis iii. v. 14 Beselie our folkis gan to pingill and strife. Ibid. v. iv. 75 With all thar force than at the vterance, Thai pinglit ayris [= oars] wp to bend, and haill. a1598Rollock Lect. Passion ix. Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) II. 109 To get that spirit to pingle out, and get the victory against this canker in the heart. 1836M. Mackintosh Cottager's Dau. 66 She'll hae to pingle through the hard.
II.
4. intr. To work in a trifling or ineffectual way; to meddle or have to do with in a petty way; to piddle or peddle; to trifle or dally. Now Sc. and north. dial.
1574R. Scot Hop Gard. (1578) 35 Suffer them not to pyngle in pycking [hops] one by one, but let them speedily strip them into Baskets. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf C vij, King Phillip, for al those dominions & mines of treasures, was content to be pingling with our purses: made Queene Mary to aske..frequent subsides. a1598Rollock Lect. Passion xxxii. Wks. (Wodrow Soc.) II. 392 We may pingle with them a while here, but we remit them to that great day that the Judge appear. 1632I. L. Women's Rights 152 If he doe but pingle, as suffer himselfe to be outlawed..this was neuer any forfeiture of franke tenement. 1871P. H. Waddell Ps. in Scottis xxxviii. 12 Wha ettle me ill speak a' mischieff an' pingle on lies the hail day.
5. intr. To pick at or trifle with food; to eat with little appetite, nibble. Now dial.
1600Nashe Summer's Last Will & Test. in Hazl. Dodsley VIII. 27 Neither did he pingle, when it was set on the board. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 75 If wee knewe of any banke-sides that lay against the sunne..wee tooke them [the hoggs]..to them, and lette pingle aboute. 1670Ray Prov. 33 Great drinkers..do (as we say) but pingle at their meat and eat little. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pingle, v. to pick one's food; to eat squeamishly. [In Eng. Dial. Dict., from Yorksh. to Herts and Essex.]
b. trans. dial.
1903Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., (Herts.) She just sits and pingles her victuals. (Essex) The child is not well, she pingles her food.
Hence ˈpingling vbl. n., (a) struggling, striving, exertion; (b) trifling with food or drink; ˈpingling ppl. a., whence ˈpinglingly adv., in a pingling way, with little appetite.
a1578Lindesay Chron. Scot. xxi. xxxviii, They were all Borderers and could ryde and prick well, and held the Scottishmen in pingling [so 2 MSS.] be their pricking and skirmishing. 1768Ross Helenore 43 Wi' my teeth I gnew the raips in twa, And wi' sair pingling wan at last awa'.
(b)1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 79 As long as they haue eyther oyle or wine, this plague feeds but pinglingly vpon them. 1602Rowlands Tis Merrie when Gossips meete 17 Nay fill your Cup, Wee'le haue no pingling now we are alone. |