linge

From Middle English lengen (“to linger”), from Old English lenġan (“to make long, lengthen”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (“to make long”). Cognate with Scots ling (“to lengthen, prolong, delay; tarry, continue”). More at linger.

• IPA^(key): /lɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

linge (third-person singular simple present linges, present participle linging, simple past and past participle linged)

1. (intransitive, UK, dialectal, obsolete) To work hard.

• lingy

• Elgin, Elgin., Eling, Ingle, Nigel, ingle

From a substantivation of Old French linge, from Latin līneus.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ̃ʒ/

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linge m (plural linges)

1. linen
2. cloth
3. laundry
4. (Switzerland) towel
5. (North America, invariable) clothing

• ligne

• “linge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ligne, ligné

linge

1. present subjunctive analytic of ling

linge

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lingō

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linge m (plural linges)

1. laundry

Inherited from Latin lingere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlin.dʒe/

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• Rhymes: -indʒe
• Hyphenation: lin‧ge

a linge (third-person singular present linge, past participle lins, third-person subjunctive lingă) 3rd conjugation

1. (transitive) to lick
2. (transitive, colloquial) synonym of linguși (“to bootlick”)
3. (reciprocal, slang) to make out

• “linge”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Marius Sala, Gheorghe Mihăilă, editors (2008), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎^[1], volume 5, Bucharest: Romanian Academy, pages 152–154