{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Glossary","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary","author_name":"Glossary","author_url":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/author\/adminglossary\/","title":"Pingle - Definition of Pingle","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dAkmzSdZ7y\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/pingle\/\">Pingle<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/pingle\/embed\/#?secret=dAkmzSdZ7y\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Pingle&#8221; &#8212; Glossary\" data-secret=\"dAkmzSdZ7y\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script>\n\/*! This file is auto-generated *\/\n!function(d,l){\"use strict\";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&\"undefined\"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!\/[^a-zA-Z0-9]\/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret=\"'+t.secret+'\"]'),c=new RegExp(\"^https?:$\",\"i\"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display=\"none\";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute(\"style\"),\"height\"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):\"link\"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute(\"src\")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener(\"message\",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll(\"iframe.wp-embedded-content\"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute(\"data-secret\"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+=\"#?secret=\"+t,e.setAttribute(\"data-secret\",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:\"ready\",secret:t},\"*\")},!1)))}(window,document);\n\/\/# sourceURL=https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/wp-includes\/js\/wp-embed.min.js\n<\/script>\n","description":"There are many reasons why you might accept an invitation to go out for dinner but not eat your food: you might have the flu; you might have just discovered that ox-tail soup is not just a fanciful name; or you might have recognized the chef from a case-study photo in a recent dermatological journal. In any of these situations, you are entitled to pingle, the act of picking and poking at your food but actually getting little of it past your lips. The word pingle appeared in the late sixteenth century, apparently a borrowing of the Swedish pyngla, meaning to toil with little effect. The word piddle, as in, \"He piddled around the office,\" seems to derive from a different source, although it too has been used since the early seventeenth century to refer to the act of poking vapidly at your food. With a slightly different shade of meaning is mim, denoting the action of toying with your food in an affected, prissy and \"daintierthan-thou\" manner; arising as an imitation of the hmph sound made by fastidious aunts with pursed lips and tense buttocks, mim first appeared in the late seventeenth century. Similarly, harumph, an exclamation of contempt, developed in the nineteenth century as an imitation of the dismissive snort frequently emitted by gruff uncles in leather chairs."}