pingler

Definitions

One who plays with his food, but does not eat.

rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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