See engle on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "engles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "engle (plural engles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "paramour",
"word": "ingle"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
47
]
],
"ref": "1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "What between his Mistress Abroad, and his Engle at Home, high Fare, soft Lodging[…]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of ingle (“paramour”)"
],
"id": "en-engle-en-noun-rWnl4Eex",
"links": [
[
"ingle",
"ingle#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of ingle (“paramour”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛŋɡəl/"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "engles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "engling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "engled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "engled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "engle (third-person singular simple present engles, present participle engling, simple past and past participle engled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "cajole",
"word": "ingle"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 84",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 83",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "11 89",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
22,
27
]
],
"ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:",
"text": "I'll presently go and engle some broker.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of ingle (“cajole”)"
],
"id": "en-engle-en-verb-wFGyJthO",
"links": [
[
"ingle",
"ingle#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of ingle (“cajole”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "butter up"
},
{
"word": "inveigle"
},
{
"word": "sweet-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"dated"
],
"word": "blandander"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "blandish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "butter up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "cajole"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "fast-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "canoodle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "carny"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "coax"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "collogue"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
],
"word": "croodle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "engle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "fleech"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "honey around"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dated",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "honey up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "hum"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "ingle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "inveigle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "soap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "soft-sawder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "soft-soap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"US",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "stroke"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "sweet-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "tweedle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "twist"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "wheedle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"archaic"
],
"word": "whilly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "word"
}
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛŋɡəl/"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "c"
},
"expansion": "engle c",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Danish entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "engel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite plural of engel"
],
"id": "en-engle-da-noun-wFbv98cc",
"links": [
[
"engel",
"engel#Danish"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"altform": "1"
},
"expansion": "engle",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "hengel"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of hengel"
],
"id": "en-engle-enm-noun-r3rP76Po",
"links": [
[
"hengel",
"hengel#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "engle",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "engel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dative singular of engel"
],
"id": "en-engle-ang-noun-myMJJ21G",
"links": [
[
"engel",
"engel#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"dative",
"form-of",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈen.ɡle/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈeŋ.ɡle]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en.ɡle"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "noun form",
"g": "c"
},
"expansion": "engle c",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Danish",
"lang_code": "da",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Danish entries with incorrect language header",
"Danish non-lemma forms",
"Danish noun forms",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "engel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"indefinite plural of engel"
],
"links": [
[
"engel",
"engel#Danish"
]
],
"tags": [
"common-gender",
"form-of",
"indefinite",
"plural"
]
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "engles",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "engle (plural engles)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "paramour",
"word": "ingle"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
47
]
],
"ref": "1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):",
"text": "What between his Mistress Abroad, and his Engle at Home, high Fare, soft Lodging[…]",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of ingle (“paramour”)"
],
"links": [
[
"ingle",
"ingle#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of ingle (“paramour”)"
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛŋɡəl/"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "engles",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "engling",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "engled",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "engled",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "engle (third-person singular simple present engles, present participle engling, simple past and past participle engled)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"extra": "cajole",
"word": "ingle"
}
],
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
22,
27
]
],
"ref": "1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:",
"text": "I'll presently go and engle some broker.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative spelling of ingle (“cajole”)"
],
"links": [
[
"ingle",
"ingle#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) Alternative spelling of ingle (“cajole”)"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "butter up"
},
{
"word": "inveigle"
},
{
"word": "sweet-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Ireland",
"dated"
],
"word": "blandander"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "blandish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "butter up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "cajole"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "fast-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "canoodle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "carny"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "coax"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "collogue"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dialectal",
"obsolete"
],
"word": "croodle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "engle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "fleech"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"figuratively"
],
"word": "honey around"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dated",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "honey up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "hum"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "ingle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "inveigle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "soap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "soft-sawder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "soft-soap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"US",
"figuratively"
],
"word": "stroke"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "sweet-talk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "tweedle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "twist"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"word": "wheedle"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"archaic"
],
"word": "whilly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:coax",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "word"
}
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɛŋɡəl/"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"altform": "1"
},
"expansion": "engle",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "hengel"
}
],
"categories": [
"Middle English alternative forms",
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"alternative form of hengel"
],
"links": [
[
"hengel",
"hengel#Middle_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "noun form"
},
"expansion": "engle",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Old English",
"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Old English entries with incorrect language header",
"Old English non-lemma forms",
"Old English noun forms",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:Old English/en.ɡle",
"Rhymes:Old English/en.ɡle/2 syllables"
],
"form_of": [
{
"word": "engel"
}
],
"glosses": [
"dative singular of engel"
],
"links": [
[
"engel",
"engel#Old_English"
]
],
"tags": [
"dative",
"form-of",
"singular"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈen.ɡle/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈeŋ.ɡle]"
},
{
"rhymes": "-en.ɡle"
}
],
"word": "engle"
}
Download raw JSONL data for engle meaning in All languages combined (6.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.