name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɪŋɡl̩/
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rhymes with -ɪŋɡəl
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/ˈɪŋɡəl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: IH1 NG G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An open fireplace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 3
A catamite; a male lover
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 4
To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, cajole, fast-talk, canoodle, carny, coax, collogue, croodle, engle, fleech, honey around, honey up, hum, ingle, soap, soft-sawder, soft-soap, stroke, tweedle, twist, wheedle, whilly, word
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Middle Scots ingle, ingill, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1óngwl̥ (“coal”). Cognate with Irish aingeal.
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