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Poor appetite; half-hearted eating or drinking; the action of picking at one's food. Cf. pingle, v. 5a. rare.
A small bit or mouthful of food; a morsel, a peck; a slender or improvised meal. Now regional (chiefly Scottish and Irish English) and colloquial.