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Ingle

//ˈɪŋɡəl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    An open fireplace. Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete

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

  2. 2
    A catamite; a male lover

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

Verb
  1. 1
    To cajole or coax; to wheedle. obsolete

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Etymology 3

Unknown.

See also for "ingle"

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