Lexicographical Neighbors of Pingler
Literary usage of Pingler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1841)
"pingler} Equivalent to—poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to
determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. ..."
2. Kind-heart's Dream: Containing Five Apparitions with Their Invectives by Henry Chettle, Edward Francis Rimbault (1841)
"pingler] Equivalent to—poor, contemptible fellow: but I must leave the reader to
determine the exact meaning of this term of reproach. ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"Ho filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meate.'—Topsell, Beasts,
1607, p. 530. Pink, (i) eb. The chaffinch. Midlands, and elsewhere. Vide Spink. ..."
4. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"... let me be counted nobody, a pingler,1—nay, let me be 2 bound to drink nothing
but small-beer seven years after—and I had as lief be hanged. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"pingler. Generally from Pingle (2), as in the following passage. It was also a
term of contempt, applied to any small inferior person or animal. ..."
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