pringle

present singular third person pringles · participle present pringling · participle past pringled · past pringled · alternative prinkle

1. intransitiveTo prickle or tingle.

   My word, my skin pringled all over as I listened to him, and I would gladly have changed my position for that of the first man in the steepest and narrowest breach that ever swallowed up a storming party.

   1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard

1. A surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
   2. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
   3. A town in Custer County, South Dakota.

plural Pringles

1. An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.

   We watched him for a few minutes as he explored the area and then I broke off a piece of a Pringle.

   2005, Shane A Bernskoetter, Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq

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   Prizant and Duchan found that some echoes were modified to serve the function of requests. For example, to the question "What do you want?" one child answered, "What do you want a Pringle."

   1984, Oliver Bloodstein, Speech pathology: an introduction

   And who am I, an avid nacho-cheese Doritos with pinot blanc fan, to cast aspersions? I was nibbling on a Pringle when something caught my eye.

   2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Serve It Cold

   Alas, the pizza-flavored Pringle rollout never happened in Italy, but in the United Kingdom and the United States, the snacks have been a hit.

   2009, Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power