Tingle vs Pingle - What's the difference?
tingle | pingle |
To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
To make ringing sounds, to twang.
*1851 ,
*:Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
* Charles Dickens
To ring
To cause to ring
* 1874 , , fit 2:
As nouns the difference between tingle and pingle
is that tingle is a prickling or stinging sensation while pingle is a small piece of enclosed ground.As a verb tingle
is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.tingle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(tingl)- sharp tingling bells
Etymology 2
Verb
(tingl)- the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.