# ingle
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɪŋɡəl/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

### Etymology 1

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.

#### Noun

ingle (plural ingles)
* (obsolete or Scotland) An open fireplace.
** 1790, Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter:Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, / Wi' reaming swats, that drank divinely

##### Derived terms

* inglenook

### Etymology 2

Unknown.

#### Alternative forms

* engle

#### Noun

ingle (plural ingles)
* A catamite; a male lover
** 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act I, scene i:What? shall I have my sonne a stager now? an enghle for players?
** 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom:Abd el Kader called them whoresons, ingle's accidents, sons of a bitch, profiteering cuckolds and pimps, jetting his insults broadcast to the roomfull.
** 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 318:My dear Rob, my beloved was known as Moustache to her ingles!

#### Verb

ingle (third-person singular simple present ingles, present participle ingling, simple past and past participle ingled)
* (obsolete) To cajole or coax; to wheedle.
** 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 9:Hugge it, ingle it, kiſſe it, and cull it, now thou haſt it, […]

### References

“ingle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Nigel, linge

## Middle Scots
### Alternative forms

* ingill

### Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”).

### Noun

ingle
* an open fireplace

### Further reading

* “ingill, ingle, n.$^1$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle Scots ingle, from Scottish Gaelic aingeal (“fire, light”), from Old Irish aingel, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óngʷl̥ (“coal”).

### Noun

ingle (plural ingles)
* an open fireplace

### Further reading

* “ingle, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* ingre (rare)
* engle (obsolete)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin inguinem. Cognate with English inguen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈinɡle/ [ˈĩŋ.ɡle]
* Rhymes: -inɡle
* Syllabification: in‧gle

### Noun

ingle f (plural ingles)
* (anatomy) groin

### Further reading

* “ingle”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10