Terms vs Pingler - What's the difference?
terms | pingler |
(rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat.
*1607 , , The History of Four-Footed Beasts , page 412:
*1636 , Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague , page 21:
*1888 , John Day, ?Nathan Field, ?Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays , page 131:
*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:
As nouns the difference between terms and pingler
is that terms is while pingler is (rare) one who plays with his food, but does not eat.pingler
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.
- ...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.
- '"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler . You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped.