ingle
/ˈɪŋɡəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.40 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely"
- "What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?"
- "Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull."
- "My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!"
- "Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it, […]"
Etymology
From Middle Scots ingle, ingill, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”). Cognate with Irish aingeal.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: ingle, aingeal, aingel, *h₁óngʷl̥