Middle English Dictionary Entry
pintel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pintel n. Also pintelle, pintil(e, pintal(e, pentel, pentil & puntel, puintel, pointel. |
| Etymology | OE |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The human penis; ?also, male genitalia; ~ ende, the foreskin; (b) the penis of an animal; an anatomical part resembling a penis [quot.: a1475]; house of the ~, foreskin; (c) in surnames.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 Cmb.Ee.4.20.Nominale (Cmb Ee.4.20)42 : Vyt, coyloun, et furchure: Pyntul, ballok, and greynes.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)60a/b : Among þe gentals [read: genitals], on hatte þe pyntyl veretrum in latyn, for it is a man his owne membre oþer for virus come ouȝt þerof.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)3/19 : Of woundis of þe ȝerde, þat is, in þi pintil, and anotamie.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)68b/b : Veretrum: a pintel.
- c1465(?1373) *Lelamour Macer (Sln 5)24a : Hit releuyth akynge of þe pyntill.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)68a/a : Also þer is a fleischie necke in hym [bladder] wiþ brawnes openyng and closing goinge oute off hym and bowinge aȝein warde passynge by peryneum vn to þe pyntel [*Ch.(1): ȝerde; L virgam] in men.
- ?a1425 *MS Htrn.95 (Htrn 95)135b/b : Þer askaped me neuer no pintil þat come in my cure in þis case þen y helid it.
- c1450 Burg.Practica (Rwl D.251)239/3 : For swellyng of a manys pyntyll.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)76 : Þat shal hele eny pyntelle, þat is skalded or sore.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.415 : It is reportyd that hys pyntell is asse longe as hys legge.
- a1475 Leve lystynes (Brog 2.1)p.30 : Hys pentyll pepythe owte beforn Lyke a warbrede.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)96a : A pyntill [Monson: Pyntelle]: cadurdum, genitale, genitalia, inguen, inguinarius, penis, prepucium, priapus..pudenda, Ramex, Rinoceros, veretrum, virilia. A pyntyll ende: prepucium.
- a1500 Mayer Nominale (Mayer)677/30 : Veretrum, priapus: a pyntyle.
- a1475 *Sidrak & B.(Lnsd 793)7950 : Þat blood comeþ ful swiftly And to þe ballockes goþ ful hastifly, And fro þenne it issueth so Whan it cometh þe pintile vnto.
- ?a1500 Henslow Recipes (Henslow)15/17 : Who-so his scoldyd on þe pyntal, þat me clepyt..þe ape.
- 1591(?a1425) Chester Pl.(Hnt HM 2)199/363 : And hit any pintell beare, I must teach him a playe.
b
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)58 : A rennyng hounde..shulde have..a litel pintel and long, smale hangyng ballokis.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)7708 : Fro his nauel dounward He was hors, and man vpward..His pyntel was of hors-kynne, And al that was fro the nauel aboue, Al was man.
- c1450 *Bk.Marchalsi (Hrl 6398)37b : He shal pissyn in þe hose of þe pyntill.
- a1475 Russell Bk.Nurt.(Hrl 4011)625 : Þe whelke, looke þat þe hed and tayle awey be kytt, his pyntill & gutt, almond & mantille, awey þer fro ye pitt.
- ?c1500 *Bk.Marchalsi (Dc 291)136a : The hors of gode entaile schall have..the house of the pyntell wele forward.
c
- (1177) in Pipe R.Soc.26133 : Robertus Pintel.
- (1194) CRR Rich.I in Pipe R.Soc.148 : Willelmus Puintel.
- (1214) CRR(2) 7143 : Robertus Pointel.
- (1219) Justice in Eyre R.in Seld.Soc.53271 : Walter Pintel.
- (c1220) Chart.Cumbwell in Archaeol.Cant.8286 : Jacobo Pentel.
- (1232) Close R.Hen.III129 : Ricardus Modipintel.
- (1241) Select Pleas Forest in Seld.Soc.1373 : Thomas Puintel.
- (1272) Court R.Ramsey266 : Alicia Pintel.
- (c1275) Hundred R.Tower 1521 : Johannes Swetpintel.
- (1276) Hundred R.Tower 1128 : Alanus Coltepyntel.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1048 : Rado Pyntel.
- (1296) Sub.R.Sus.in Sus.RS 1098 : Willmo Puntel.
- (1313-17) Nickname in LuSE 55197 : Joh. Wytepintell.
- 1662(c1334) Bk.Vale Royal in LCRS 68 (Hrl 2064)98 : John Pyntel.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc., see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pintle.