Ingle vs Tingle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between ingle and tingle

is that ingle is an open fireplace while tingle is a prickling or stinging sensation.

As verbs the difference between ingle and tingle

is that ingle is to cajole or coax; to wheedle while tingle is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

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

* ----

tingle

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(tingl)

To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.

To make ringing sounds, to twang.

*1851 ,

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

* Charles Dickens

sharp tingling bells

Noun

(en noun)

A prickling or stinging sensation.

Etymology 2

Verb

(tingl)

To ring

To cause to ring

* 1874 , , fit 2:

the Captain they trusted so well

Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,

And that was to tingle his bell.