Definition of Pingler

1. one that pingles [n -S] - See also: pingles

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pingler

pingable
pingas
pingback
pingbacks
pinged
pingee
pingees
pinger
pingers
pingguite
pinging
pingingly
pingle
pingled
pingler (current term)
pinglers
pingles
pingling
pingo
pingoes
pingos
pingpong paddle
pingpong table
pings
pinguecula
pinguefy
pinguescence

Literary usage of Pingler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1841)
"pingler} Equivalent to—poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. ..."

2. Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives by Henry Chettle, Edward Francis Rimbault (1841)
"pingler] Equivalent to—poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Ho filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meate.'—Topsell, Beasts, 1607, p. 530. Pink, (i) eb. The chaffinch. Midlands, and elsewhere. Vide Spink. ..."

4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"... let me be counted nobody, a pingler,1—nay, let me be 2 bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after—and I had as lief be hanged. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"pingler. Generally from Pingle (2), as in the following passage. It was also a term of contempt, applied to any small inferior person or animal. ..."

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