different between pinter vs pintel

English

Etymology

pint +? -er

Noun

pinter (plural pinters)

1. (in combinations, Britain, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
2. (in combinations, Britain, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
   • 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red (page 262)

     “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter.

3. (in combinations, Britain, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.

   She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.

Anagrams

• Petrin, Pitner, e-print, nipter, pre-tin, pretin, pterin, reptin, terpin

French

Etymology

pinte +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.te/

Verb

pinter

1. (informal) To get drunk

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pinter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

pintel (plural pintels)

1. Alternative spelling of pintle

Anagrams

• leptin, pintle

Middle English

Noun

pintel

1. Alternative form of pyntel

Old English

Etymology

A diminutive form of Germanic *pintia-, from Proto-Germanic *pint- (“protrusion”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“peg, tip, protruding point, edge”), equivalent to modern English pin +? -le. Cognate with Old Frisian pint, Middle Low German pint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pin.tel/

Noun

pintel m

1. penis

Descendants

• Middle English: pyntel
  • English: pintle
  • Scots: pintle