pingle

Etymology

Two main origins: * Americanized spelling of German Pingel. * Borrowed from Marathi पिंगळे (piṅgḷe). This surname is mostly found in Maharashtra.

name

A small piece of enclosed ground.“Matthew Smith, by his will, bearing date 20th February 1713, left two alms-houses which he had built, and four closes of land, part freehold and part copyhold, lying in the Hoppings, near Hopping-hill, in the liberty of Belper, containing, by estimation, 13 acres: and a pingle, containing half an acre, to George Gregory, esq. of Nottingham, and Thomas Goodwin, esq. of Derby, and their heirs, to th”
An onerous and difficult task; a hardship.“let them garr their wives; more awkward and violent; a pingle of trifles; a counterscarse of examples; an Empericall Quack-saluer;”
A small pot with a lid.“You want a pingle, lassie, weel and guid—'Tis thretty pennies—pit it whar it stood!”

To eat with a feeble appetite.“all this while when we haue beene at the Lords spirituall feasts, wee haue but pingled, and neuer made a good meale.”
To dawdle.“He pingled his wey tae the first o the moontain's three fause peaks an wis hauf-roads tae the second when a voice rang oot across the hills like a thunder plump.”
To struggle; to work with great effort.“Those that but now did put their labo'ring hands Unto thy Plough, have rid more work away Then I that here have pingled many a day.”
to bother or create work for.“and howbeit all the Nobillmen and Gentillmen, Bisschoppis, Commissiouneries, and thair adherentis, voitit to the Bisschop Law, yit a number of the best of the Ministerie pingled them; so that , iff they had not bein devydit becaus of Mr Patrick Simpsoune's disseas and waiknes, it wes thought they sould haiff prevaillit.”
To struggle or squabble.“pingled and struggled with the Spaniardes for breade and other cates, and often wi mette with them in the Townes, Willages, open fields, and skirmished at ý very skirts of their cape, procuring the to fight.”
To spoil“[…] but those on the south side, getting both sun and traffic fumes from Pall Mall, pingled”