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English

Etymology

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Noun

pingler (plural pinglers)

1. (rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat.
   • 1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts, page 412:

     It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.

   • 1636, Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague, page 21:

     For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.

   • 1888, John Day, Nathan Field, Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays, page 131:

     ...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler, — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged.

   • 1964, Time & Tide, Volume 45:

     A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler.

   • 1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 162:

     '"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped.

Anagrams

• Pringle, lerping, plinger, pringle

English

Etymology

From ping +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???(r)

Noun

pinger (plural pingers)

1. A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.

   We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.

2. A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.

   The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration.

3. A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.

   Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application.

4. A user of a ping program; one who pings.

   Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there.

5. (slang) An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes.

   That was a great party. Everyone took a pinger or two.

Anagrams

• preing

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin pingo / pingere.

Verb

pinger

1. to paint

Conjugation

Related terms

• pictor