Pringle

Meaning

1. An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.
2. A place in the United States:
3. A borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.
4. A town in Custer County, South Dakota.
5. An unincorporated community in Washington County, Georgia.
6. A surname.

Etymology / origin

* (surname): Habitational, from a place near Stow Roxburghshire, formerly called Hop(p)ringle, from Middle English hop (“enclosed valley”) + a name of Old Norse origin composed of the byname Prjónn (“pin, peg”, cognate with English preen) + an unidentified second element. * (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.

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