† ningle, n. Obs.
[See N 3.]
= ingle n.2 (Freq. in early 17th cent. plays.)
| 1598–9 B. Jonson Case Altered v. ii, Sirrah ningle, thou art a traveller, and I honour thee... Begin, find your tongue, ningle. 1602 Dekker Satirom. B 4, Horace, my sweet ningle, is alwayes in labour when I come. 1622 Massinger & Dekker Virg. Mart. ii. i, Priapus..was the only ningle that I cared for under the moon. 1640 Brome Sparagus Gard. iii. v, It may take your Nephew off his Ningle, who hath affected him with Poetry already. |
So † ningle v. Obs. rare—0 = ingle v. 1.
| 1659 Torriano Zanzeráre, to ningle [Florio, nigle] boyes, or wantonly to dally with them against nature. |