ingle

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/ˈɪŋɡəl//ˈɪŋɡl̩/

noun

An open fireplace.

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OriginMiddle Scots ingle ← Scottish Gaelic aingeal ← Old Irish aingel →
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Meanings

ingle1

nouningle (plural ingles)

plural ingles

  1. Northern EnglandScotlandobsoleteAn open fireplace.

    Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely

    1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter

ingle2

nouningle (plural ingles)

plural ingles · alternative engle

  1. A catamite; a male lover

    My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!

    1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318
    2 more examples

    What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?

    1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i

    Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.

    1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
verbingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)

present singular third person ingles · participle present ingling · participle past ingled · past ingled · alternative engle

  1. obsoleteTo cajole or coax; to wheedle.

    Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it, […]

    1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “[The Epistle Dedicatorie]”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: butter up, inveigle, sweet-talk, blandander, blandish, butter up, cajole, sweeten

Ingle3

proper noun
  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo cajole or coax; to wheedle.

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Origin

ingle · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óngʷl̥“coal”
  2. Old Irishaingel
  3. Scottish Gaelicaingeal“fire, light”
  4. Middle Scotsingle
  5. Englishingle

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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ingle · noun, verb

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with ingle

singlejingleshingleminglepringletingledingleFingallinglekringleringleswingleinterminglecomminglebingleHingleatinglebeminglecassinglecingleintertwinglejingalKris Kringlelingel
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Anagrams

NigelElginligneElinglinge
Cite this entry
APA

ingle. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingle

MLA

“ingle.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingle. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ingle,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingle.

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