英语词汇“prinkle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

prinkle

释义

▪ I. prinkle, n. Sc.|ˈprɪŋk(ə)l|
[Origin obscure.]
A young coal-fish, Pollachius virens.
1832P. Buchan Secret Songs of Silence (MS.) 177 The laddie and the lassie, Gaed out to gather prinkle, O.1903G. Sim Vertebrate Fauna of ‘Dee’ 238 In the young stages, the names of ‘Prinkle’, ‘Gerrick’, ‘Poodlie’, are given [to the coal fish].1943W. S. Forsyth Guff o' Waur 54 Wupp it weel wi' curly 'oo', The prinkles to confoun'.1972Which? May 135/1 Saithe..may be called coal fish, coley, and a whole host of local names from cooth to prinkle.
▪ II. prinkle, v. Sc.|ˈprɪŋk(ə)l|
[Origin obscure; in sense 1, perh. a modification of prickle v.; in sense 2, perh. dim. or frequent. of prink v.¹ See pringle v.]
1. intr. To have a thrilling sensation, such as the feeling of ‘pins and needles’; to tingle, prickle. Hence ˈprinkling vbl. n.
1721Kelly Sc. Prov. 396 I'll gar your Daup [note Back⁓side] dirle [prinkle, smart].1807Hogg Song, ‘Sing on, sing on’ i, My blude ran prinklin' through my veins, My hair begoud to steer, O.1818― Brownie of B. I. xii. 270 Are ye an angel o' light..that ye gar my heart prinkle sae wi' a joy that it never thought again to taste?1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 175 The dulefu' dart, That sent a prinklin' to his heart Mair fierce than burr or nettle.
2. intr. To twinkle, scintillate, sparkle.
1724Ramsay Vision xvii, Starrie gleims..prinkled, and twinkled.1851Mayne Reid Rifle Rangers xi, His rays, prinkling over the waves, caused them to dance and sparkle with a metallic brightness.Ibid. xii, The humming-birds..prinkled over the parterre like straying sunbeams.

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