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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????l/

Noun

engle (plural engles)

1. A favourite; a paramour; an ingle.
   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

     What between his Mistress Abroad, and his Engle at Home, high Fare, soft Lodging […]

Verb

engle (third-person singular simple present engles, present participle engling, simple past and past participle engled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cajole or coax.

   • I'll presently go and engle some broker.

Anagrams

• Engel, gleen, glene

Danish

Noun

engle c

1. indefinite plural of engel

Middle English

Noun

engle

1. Alternative form of hengel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????l/
• Rhymes: -????l

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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Etymology 4

Origin unknown.

Noun

ingle (plural ingles)

1. (obsolete) A male lover.
   • 1601, Ben Jonson, The Poetaster:

     Shall I have my son a stager now? an ingle for player?

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.

References

ingle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Nigel, linge

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