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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Uncertain; perhaps from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”).
Noun
ingle (plural ingles)
- (obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Noun
ingle (plural ingles)
- A catamite; a male lover
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
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 L and C B , →OCLC:Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it
References
“ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
Spanish
Etymology
Inherited from Latin inguinem. Cognate with English inguen.
Pronunciation
Noun
ingle f (plural ingles)
- (anatomy) groin
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