Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, mingles.

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Noun

(en noun)

(rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat.

*1607 , , The History of Four-Footed Beasts , page 412:

It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus'' a servant to Plautus was, is called ''Cricetus , a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.

*1636 , Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague , page 21:

For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.

*1888 , John Day, ?Nathan Field, ?Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays , page 131:

...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler , — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged.

*1964 , Time & Tide , Volume 45:

*:A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler .

*1986 , Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey , page 162:

'"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler . You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped.