Pingler vs Tingler - What's the difference?
pingler | tingler |
(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 pingler and tingler
is that pingler is (rare) one who plays with his food, but does not eat while tingler is one who tingles.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.