different between pingle vs pintle

English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from pin (“to impound”).

Noun

pingle (plural pingles)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.

Etymology 2

Verb

pingle (third-person singular simple present pingles, present participle pingling, simple past and past participle pingled)

1. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To eat with a feeble appetite.
2. (intransitive, Britain, dialect) To dawdle.

Anagrams

• Epling, Pingel

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p???l?]
• Rhymes: -?l?, -???l?
• Hyphenation: pin?g?le

Noun

pingle

1. vocative singular of pingl

English

Alternative forms

• pintel

Etymology

From Middle English pyntel, from Old English pintel (“penis”), from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to pin +? -le. Cognate with Middle Low German pint (“male member, penis”), West Flemish pint (“tip”), Norwegian dialectal pintol (“penis”). More at pin, pen.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pintle (plural pintles)

1. (now dialectal) The penis.

   Synonym: tarse

2. (nautical) A pin or bolt, usually vertical, which acts as a pivot for a hinge or a rudder.
   • 2005, James Meek, The People’s Act of Love, Canongate (2006), page 31:

     The train had a searchlight mounted on a pintle on a flat car.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pintle.
3. (gunnery) An iron pin used to control recoil of a cannon or around which a gun carriage revolves.

Translations

Anagrams

• leptin, pintel