prinkle

English

Verb

prinkle (third-person singular simple present prinkles, present participle prinkling, simple past and past participle prinkled)

  1. 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.
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