prinkle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɪŋkl̩/
- Rhymes: -ɪŋkəl
Verb
prinkle (third-person singular simple present prinkles, present participle prinkling, simple past and past participle prinkled)
- Alternative form of pringle (“to prickle or tingle”).
- 1912, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Marriage of Captain Kettle, page 287:
- He was stiff from head to foot, his bones ached, and his skin prinkled, this being the ordinary way that frost affects one in the tropics.