"pingler" meaning in All languages combined

See pingler on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: pinglers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} pingler (plural pinglers)
  1. (rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-pingler-en-noun-kr6sl1Wg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinglers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pingler (plural pinglers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts, page 412:",
          "text": "It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1636, Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague, page 21:",
          "text": "For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, John Day, Nathan Field, Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays, page 131:",
          "text": "...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler, — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Time & Tide, volume 45:",
          "text": "A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 162:",
          "text": "'\"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat,\" Mum snapped.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who plays with his food, but does not eat."
      ],
      "id": "en-pingler-en-noun-kr6sl1Wg",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pingler"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pinglers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pingler (plural pinglers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1607, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-Footed Beasts, page 412:",
          "text": "It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1636, Stephen Bradwell, Physick for the sicknesse, commonly called the plague, page 21:",
          "text": "For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888, John Day, Nathan Field, Herbert Percy Horne, Nero & Other Plays, page 131:",
          "text": "...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler, — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964, Time & Tide, volume 45:",
          "text": "A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Audrey Whiting, Gal Audrey, page 162:",
          "text": "'\"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat,\" Mum snapped.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who plays with his food, but does not eat."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) One who plays with his food, but does not eat."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pingler"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pingler meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.