ingle

See also: Ingle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪŋɡəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

• inglenook

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Alternative forms

• engle

Noun

ingle (plural ingles)

1. 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, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 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)

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[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →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

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Nigel, linge

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• ingre (rare)
• engle (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin inguen (genitive singular inguinis). Cognate with English inguen.

Noun

ingle f (plural ingles)

1. (anatomy) groin

Further reading

• “ingle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014