pingler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who plays with his food, but does not eat.
Example Sentences
- "It hath large and wide cheeks, which they always fill, both carrying in, and carrying out, they eat with both, whereupon a devouring fellow,such a one as Stafimus a servant to Plautus was, is called Cricetus, a Hamster, because he filleth his mouth well, and is no pingler at his meat."
- "For the Drunkennesse lives of many are so monstrous, that Heliogabalus was but a pingler to them."
- "...if I cannot drink it down to my foot, ere I leave, and then set the tap in the midst of the house, and then turn a good turn on the toe on it, let me be counted nobody, a pingler, — nay, let me be bound to drink nothing but small-beer seven years after — and I had as lief be hanged."
- "A person who only toys with his food, or a child who will not eat, is a pingler."
- "'"Gal Audrey, yer wot l call a pingler. You don't never want nothin' to eat," Mum snapped."