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Pingle vs Cingle - What's the difference?

pingle | cingle |

As nouns the difference between pingle and cingle

is that pingle is a small piece of enclosed ground while cingle is a kind of belt or other girdle.

pingle

English

Noun

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

    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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