name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
Pringle
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name
Meaning 2
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
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name
Meaning 3
A place in the United States:
A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
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name
Meaning 4
A place in the United States:
A town in Custer County, South Dakota.
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noun
Meaning 5
An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
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verb
Meaning 6
To prickle or tingle.
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Usage: intransitive
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History
Etymology
* (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element. * (borough of Pennsylvania): Named in honor of Thomas Pringle. * (town in South Dakota): Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.
There are several theories: * Named after Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2,286,644 titled “Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes” on 5 March 1937. Pringle’s work was cited by Procter & Gamble (the original seller of Pringles) in filing their own patent for improving the taste of dehydrated processed potatoes. * Two Procter advertising employees lived on Pringle Drive in Finneytown (north of Cincinnati, Ohio), and the name paired well with “potato chips”. * Procter & Gamble chose the name from a Cincinnati telephone book. * “Chosen out of a hat” to promote a family name appeal.
Across languages
Translations
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بْرِينْجَلْز (brīnjalz) — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Chinese Mandarin: 品客 (pǐnkè) — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Dutch: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Finnish: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- French: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- German: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Hungarian: Pringles — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Japanese: プリングルズ (puringuruzu) — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Portuguese: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Russian: Принглс (Pringls) — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
- Spanish: Pringle — individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
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