pingle

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  1. A small piece of inclosed ground. The academy, a little pingle, or plot of ground, … was the habitation of Plato, Xenocrates, and Polemon. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 226. (Latham.)
  2. To eat with little appetite. [Provincial English]

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  1. Perhaps a variant of pightle, pickle.
  2. Orig. obscure.
 

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