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Pingler vs Pinger - What's the difference?

pingler | pinger |

As nouns the difference between pingler and pinger

is that pingler is (rare) one who plays with his food, but does not eat while pinger is a device that emits a short, high-pitched sound bust (ie goes, "ping!") such as in sonar or other echo location systems.

pingler

English

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.

    pinger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound bust (i.e. goes, "ping!") such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
    • We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.
  • A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
    • The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration.
  • A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
    • Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application.
  • A user of a ping program; one who pings.
    • Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there.
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