ingan
(ˈɪŋən)
Also -un, -in.
[Phonetic development, with i as in mither, brither, hinnie, and (ŋ) for (ɲ), as ring for reign, etc.]
Sc. and Eng. dial. form of onion.
| 1725 Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. i. Sang viii, She can mix fu' nice The gusty ingans wi' a curn o' spice. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xiv, Sae mony royal boroughs yoked on end to end, like ropes of ingans. 1819 ― Leg. Montrose ii, Our Spanish colonel, whom I could have blown away like the peeling of an ingan. 1891 Hartland (N. Devon) Gloss. 77 Taty-ingin..Seed-ingin. |