NINGLE NOUN a close male friend or favourite; a confidant; also (derogatory), a subservient lover, especially a homosexual one ...1602 obs. VERB to fondle or caress lovingly or intimately ...1659 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY a variant of ingle (n. a lover, a sexual partner, especially a boy or young man who is made use of as a (typically passive) sexual partner by an older man; generally, a (younger) passive partner in homosexual anal intercourse) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1602 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...Horace, Horace, my sweet ningle, is alwayes in labour when I come, the nine Muses be his midwiues, I pray Iupiter: Ningle!..." From: Satiro-Mastix. Or The Vntrussing of the Humorous Poet As it Hath Bin Presented Publikely, by the Right Honorable, the Lord Chamberlaine his Seruants; and Priuately, by the Children of Paules - Thomas Dekker
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