cingle

Borrowed from French cengle (Modern French sangle), from Late Latin cingula, from Latin cingulum (“girdle”), from cingere (“to gird”). Doublet of cinch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪŋɡəl/

cingle (plural cingles)

1. A kind of belt or other girdle.
   • 1990, Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers:

     A triangle of arcs, her slip, flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle.

cingle

1. first-person singular present indicative of cingler
2. third-person singular present indicative of cingler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cingler
5. second-person singular imperative of cingler

• cligne, cligné

cingle

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of cinglar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of cinglar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of cinglar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of cinglar.