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Mingle vs Pingle - What's the difference?

mingle | pingle |

As nouns the difference between mingle and pingle

is that mingle is (obsolete) a mixture while pingle is (obsolete|uk|dialect) a small piece of enclosed ground.

As a verb mingle

is to mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.

mingle

English

(Webster 1913)

Verb

(mingl)
  • To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
  • * Bible, Exodus ix. 24
    • There was fire mingled with the hail.
    Across the city yesterday, there was a feeling of bittersweet reunion as streams of humanity converged and mingled at dozens of memorial services. — New York Times
  • To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
  • * Bible, Ezra ix. 2
    • The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
  • To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
  • * Henry Rogers
    • a mingled , imperfect virtue
  • (obsolete) To put together; to join.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
    • [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
  • To become mixed or blended.

    • Derived terms

    * commingle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A mixture.

    • Related terms

    * among * mongrel

    pingle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.
    • (Webster 1913)