ingle

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Uncertain; perhaps from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”).

ingle (plural ingles)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
   • 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:

     Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely

• inglenook

Unknown.

• engle

ingle (plural ingles)

1. A catamite; a male lover
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: , London: for M L , 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!

ingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)

1. (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 L and C B , →OCLC:

     Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it

“ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Nigel, linge

• ingre (rare)
• engle (obsolete)

Inherited from Latin inguinem. Cognate with English inguen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈinɡle/
• Rhymes: -inɡle
• Syllabification: in‧gle

ingle f (plural ingles)

1. (anatomy) groin

• “ingle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28