Meaning of ingle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An open fireplace.
   Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete
3. A catamite; a male lover

Examples

“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!”

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