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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tringle (“rod”).

Noun

tringle (plural tringles)

1. A curtain rod for a bedstead.
2. A small moulding of rectangular cross section, in a Doric triglyph, etc.
3. A strip of wood at the edge of a gun platform to turn the recoil of the truck.

Anagrams

• Giltner, Tingler, ringlet, tingler

French

Etymology

An alteration (with intrusive r) of Middle French tingle, from Middle Dutch tengel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t????l/

Noun

tringle f (plural tringles)

1. rod
2. (architecture) tenia

Verb

tringle

1. first-person singular present indicative of tringler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tringler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tringler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tringler
5. second-person singular imperative of tringler

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English tinglen, a variant of tinclen (“to tinkle”). More at tinkle.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

tingle (third-person singular simple present tingles, present participle tingling, simple past and past participle tingled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
   • 1913, Eleanor Porter, Pollyanna, Chapter 8:

     For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose. Meanwhile the sick woman, frowning prodigiously, and openly scoffing at the whole procedure, was, in spite of herself, beginning to tingle with a feeling perilously near to excitement.

2. (transitive) To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

3. (intransitive) To ring, to tinkle.
4. (transitive) To cause to ring, to tinkle.
   • 1874, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, fit 2:

     […] the Captain they trusted so well

     Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,

     And that was to tingle his bell.

5. (intransitive) To make ringing sounds; to twang.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13

     Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.

   • June 9, 1860, Charles Dickens, All the Year Round

     sharp tingling bells

Synonyms

• (to feel a prickly sensation): itch
• (to ring, cause to ring): tinkle

Derived terms

• tingly

Translations

Noun

tingle (plural tingles)

1. A prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

Translations

Anagrams

• Etling, elting, linget, niglet