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▪ I. † ˈpringle, n. Obs. dial.
Also prindle.
[Origin unascertained: perh. from the surname Pringle.]
A silver coin: see quots.
1683G. Meriton Yorks. Dial. 183 Here's good Tobacco, Wife, it cost a Pringle [v.r. prindle]. [1697(ed. 3) Gloss., Pringle, a little silver Scotch Coin about the bigness of a penny, with two xx. on it.]
▪ II. pringle, v.
[Alteration of prinkle v. (app. influenced by tingle).]
intr. To have a prickly and tingling sensation.
1889Doyle Micah Clarke xxi, You must be still pringling from the first [hand-grip]. Ibid. xxxii, My eyes ached and my lips pringled with the smack of the powder. 1894― Round Red Lamp xii. 230 There was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. |