▪ I. † ˈpringle, n. Obs. dial.
Also prindle.
[Origin unascertained: perh. from the surname Pringle.]
A silver coin: see quots.
| 1683 G. Meriton Yorks. Dial. 183 Here's good Tobacco, Wife, it cost a Pringle [v.r. prindle]. [1697 (ed. 3) Gloss., Pringle, a little silver Scotch Coin about the bigness of a penny, with two xx. on it.] |
▪ II. pringle, v.
[Alteration of prinkle v. (app. influenced by tingle).]
intr. To have a prickly and tingling sensation.
| 1889 Doyle Micah Clarke xxi, You must be still pringling from the first [hand-grip]. Ibid. xxxii, My eyes ached and my lips pringled with the smack of the powder. 1894 ― Round Red Lamp xii. 230 There was something in this sudden, uncontrollable shriek of horror which chilled his blood and pringled in his skin. |