单词 | pingler |
释义 | pinglern. Now English regional (southern) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who musardc1330 tifflerc1535 dalliera1568 pingler1578 puddlera1585 wag-wanton1601 fiddle-faddle1602 piddler1602 pedlara1625 potterer1837 frivolist1884 frivoller1889 tiddlywinker1893 muck-about1933 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 40 Iudging all to be clownes, which be no courtiers, and all to be pinglers, that be not coursers. 2. A person who has little appetite for food or drink. Now English regional (southern) rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > [noun] > eating small amounts > one eating small amounts pickler1581 pingler1599 1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. E3 If I cannot drinke it downe..let me be counted no body, a pingler. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 530 He filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meate. 1657 M. Lawrence Use & Pract. Faith 206 Men that are..declining..are but pinglers at their meat. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia ii. ii. 8 Terence [was] a pure Pingler. Others are sullen, dogged Sots, The Deipnosophist best loves his Pots. 1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 60 Pingler, one who pingles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1578 |
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