| 释义 |
ˈpingler Obs. or dial.
[f. prec. II + -er1.]
1. A trifler, dallier, dabbler. (In quot. opposed to courser, runner, one who runs in a race.)[Conjectured by Nares to mean ‘a labouring horse kept by a farmer in his homestead’, from pingle n.2 Hence Ogilvie (and Century Dict.) ‘a cart-horse, a workhorse’.] 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 109 Judging all to be clownes which be no courtiers, and al to be pinglers that be not coursers.
2. One who ‘pingles’ with food or drink.
1599Porter Angry Wom. Abingd. (Percy Soc.) 48 If I cannot drinke it downe..let me be counted nobody, a pingler. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 412 He filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat. 1657M. Lawrence Use & Pract. Faith 206 Men that are..declining..are but pinglers at their meat. |