† ninglen.
Obsolete.
A close male friend, a confidant; (also, derogatory) a subservient lover, esp. a homosexual one. Cf. ingle n.2Frequently in early 17th cent. plays.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person > male > boy or youth
bardash1550
catamite?1552
Ganymede1558
ingle1592
ningle1602
Ganymedean1603
pathic1605
prostitute1654
love-boy1655
punk1698
chicken1914
tart1935
bumboy1937
mo1968
1602 T. Dekker Satiro-mastix sig. B4 Horace, my sweet ningle, is alwayes in labour when I come.
1609 B. Jonson Case is Alterd iii. sig. H4 Sirrah Ningle: thou art a traueller, and I honour thee... Begin, find your tongue Ningle.
1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir ii. sig. D Priapus..was the onely Ningle that I cared for vnder the Moone.
1641 Murther, Murther 4 Hearing her Ningles unjust complaint, she cryed out that it was her own fault, for letting such an abject villaine to live.
?1668 T. Jordan Wealth Out-witted i. i. 2 Upon my credit Ningle I remember him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
† ninglev.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
transitive. = ingle v. 1b.
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the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)]
freeOE
coy1340
daunsel1362
to fawn on, upon1477
daut?a1513
cherish1568
fona1586
minion1598
flatter1599
ingle1599
biscot1653
ningle1659
fond1676
smuggle1679
fondle1686
caress1697
nauntle1828
smudge1844
1659 G. Torriano Florio's Vocabolario Italiano & Inglese Zanzeráre, to ningle [Florio, nigle] boyes, or wantonly to dally with them against nature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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