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Pringle
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
- 3 A place in the United States:; A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
- 4 A place in the United States:; A town in Custer County, South Dakota.
- 1 An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
"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.""
- 1 To prickle or tingle. intransitive
"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."
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.
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