ingle

See also: Ingle

English

Pronunciation

• 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.

Noun

ingle (plural ingles)

1. A catamite.
   • 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!

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• engle

Noun

ingle (plural ingles)

1. (obsolete) A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart.

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Verb

1. (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Elgin, Elgin., Nigel, linge

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• ingre (rare), engle (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin inguen, inguinis. Cognate with English inguen.

Noun

ingle f (plural ingles)

1. (anatomy) groin