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Ingle vs Cingle - What's the difference?

ingle | cingle |

As verbs the difference between ingle and cingle

is that ingle is (obsolete) to cajole or coax; to wheedle while cingle is .

As a noun ingle

is (obsolete|or|scotland) an open fireplace or ingle can be a catamite or ingle can be (obsolete) a paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart.

As an adjective cingle is

nuts, bonkers, crazy.

ingle

English

Etymology 1

Origin uncertain; perhaps compare (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, or, Scotland) An open fireplace.
    • (Robert Burns)
    Derived terms
    * inglenook

    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A catamite.
  • * 1926 , , :
    • Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle' s accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 318:
    • My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles !

    Etymology 3

    Alternative forms

    * engle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart.
    • (Toone)

    Verb

    (ingl)
  • (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    cingle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kind of belt or other girdle.
  • * 1990 , Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers :
    • A triangle of arcs, her slip , flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle .
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