pringle
/pɹˈɪŋɡəl/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.90 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A surname.
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
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A place in the United States:
noun
An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
Example Sentences
- "Prizant and Duchan found that some echoes were modified to serve the function of requests. For example, to the question "What do you want?" one child answered, "What do you want a Pringle.""
- "We watched him for a few minutes as he explored the area and then I broke off a piece of a Pringle."
- "And who am I, an avid nacho-cheese Doritos with pinot blanc fan, to cast aspersions? I was nibbling on a Pringle when something caught my eye."
- "Alas, the pizza-flavored Pringle rollout never happened in Italy, but in the United Kingdom and the United States, the snacks have been a hit."
- "My word, my skin pringled all over as I listened to him, and I would gladly have changed my position for that of the first man in the steepest and narrowest breach that ever swallowed up a storming party."
Etymology
* (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element. * (borough of Pennsylvania): Named in honor of Thomas Pringle. * (town in South Dakota): Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.