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Pringle
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pringle
English
Pronunciation
en ɪŋɡəl 2
Etymology 1
surname Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from en enm hop enclosed valley + a name of en non - origin composed of the byname non Prjónn pin, peg cognate with en preen + an unidentified second element.130 3
borough of Pennsylvania Named in honor of Thomas Pringle.
town in South Dakota Started as a stage stop on the Sidney-Custer Trail, operated by Henry Pringle.
Proper noun
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en.
en place c/USA:
en ucomm co/Washington County s/Georgia.
en borough in co/Luzerne County s/Pennsylvania.
en town co/Custer County s/South Dakota.
Etymology 2
There are several theories:
Named after Mark Pringle, who filed a US Patent 2,286,644 titled “Method and Apparatus for Processing Potatoes” on 5 March 1937.Mark Pringle Herman F. Lame Method and apparatus for processing potatoes US Patent 2286644 5 March 1987. Pringle’s work was cited by Procter & Gamble (the original seller of Pringles) in filing their own patent for improving the taste of dehydrated processed potatoes.Andrew Martin Once a Great Flop, Now Sold for Billions The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/business/06pringles.html 5 April 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20251020082402/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/business/06pringles.html 20 October 2025.
Two Procter advertising employees lived on Pringle Drive in Finneytown (north of Cincinnati, Ohio), and the name paired well with “potato chips”.How Pringles got its name Procter & Gamble Everyday Solutions Canada http://pgsnacks.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1288/session/L3NpZC9IYTJ3eF9Saw%3D%3D https://archive.today/20120714203735/http://pgsnacks.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1288/session/L3NpZC9IYTJ3eF9Saw%3D%3D 2012 14 July 2012.
Procter & Gamble chose the name from a Cincinnati telephone book.Ethan Trex Where Did 'Pringles' Come From? The Stories Behind 7 Salty Snacks Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/25297/where-did-pringles-come-stories-behind-7-salty-snacks 27 July 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20250612114503/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/25297/where-did-pringles-come-stories-behind-7-salty-snacks 12 June 2025.
“Chosen out of a hat” to promote a family name appeal.George Lazarus Big Firms Wrestle Over Chips Name Fort Worth Star-Telegram https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67132846/big-firms-wrestle-over-chips-name/ 13 February 1969 https://web.archive.org/web/20220817081216/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67132846/big-firms-wrestle-over-chips-name/ 17 August 2022.
Noun
An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
en 1984 Oliver Bloodstein Speech pathology: an introduction Prizant and Duchan found that some echoes were modified to serve the function of requests. For example, to the question "What do you want?" one child answered, "What do you want a Pringle."
en 2005 Shane A Bernskoetter Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq We watched him for a few minutes as he explored the area and then I broke off a piece of a Pringle.
en 2007 Ronnie Blackwell Serve It Cold And who am I, an avid nacho-cheese Doritos with pinot blanc fan, to cast aspersions? I was nibbling on a Pringle when something caught my eye.
en 2009 Mark Schapiro Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Alas, the pizza-flavored Pringle rollout never happened in Italy, but in the United Kingdom and the United States, the snacks have been a hit.
Derived terms
en single as a Pringle
Translations
individual potato snack of the Pringles brand
Arabic: ar بْرِينْجَلْز
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 品客 pǐnkè
Dutch: nl Pringle
Finnish: fi Pringle
French: fr Pringle m
German: de Pringle
Hungarian: hu Pringles
Japanese: ja プリングルズ puringuruzu
Portuguese: pt Pringle m
Russian: ru Принглс m
Spanish: es Pringle m
References
Anagrams
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