pingle verb 7noun 3forms 3 verb7 •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. — 1661 •To struggle or squabble. •(dialect, UK) 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. — 2020 •(dialect, UK) 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. — 1616 •to bother or create work for.Ta Tighearnach (i.e., the Chief) did not like ta Sassenach Duinhé-wassel to be pingled wi' mickle speaking, as she was na' tat weel. — 1883 •To make a light, ringing, percussive sound.The milk hissed and pingled - or Phil's tongue hissed and pingled. — 1930 •To spoil[…] but those on the south side, getting both sun and traffic fumes from Pall Mall, pingled — 1988 noun3 •A small pot with a lid.You want a pingle, lassie, weel and guid—'Tis thretty pennies—pit it whar it stood! — 1821 •(dialect, no longer used) A small piece of enclosed ground.In 1619, John Chipsey and his wife Ellen surrendered lands in Scotter at le Clowehole," and "a pingle at the woodside," Manor Records, sub anno. — 1881 •(no longer used) 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 — 1612 formspingled · pingling · pingles
