different between dingle vs dindle

English

Etymology

From Middle English dingle (“a deep hollow; dell”), from Old English *dyngel, a diminutive of Old English ding, dung (“dungeon; pit”), equivalent to dung +? -le. Compare also dimble (“a dingle, glen, retired place”).

Related to dungeon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???l?/

Noun

dingle (plural dingles)

1. A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Book III, Chapter 4

     Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.

Translations

Anagrams

• elding, engild, gilden, ingled

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Related to dangle and denge

Verb

dingle (imperative dingl or dingle, present tense dingler, passive dingles, simple past and past participle dingla or dinglet, present participle dinglende)

1. to dangle, hang, swing

References

• “dingle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• dingla

Etymology

Delated to dangle and denge

Verb

dingle (present tense dinglar, past tense dingla, past participle dingla, passive infinitive dinglast, present participle dinglande, imperative dingl)

1. to dangle, hang, swing

References

• “dingle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• dinnle, dinle

Etymology

From Middle English dyndelen (“to tinkle; tingle; tremble”), perhaps equivalent to din +? -le (frequentative suffix). Cognate with Scots dinnle (“to shake; tremble; to cause to shake or tremble”), Old Scots dyndill (“to cause to resound or vibrate”). Compare dandle, din.

Verb

dindle (third-person singular simple present dindles, present participle dindling, simple past and past participle dindled)

1. To tingle, as from cold; quiver; thrill
2. (Britain, intransitive) to shake; vibrate; tremor

Related terms

• dunner

Noun

dindle (plural dindles)

1. A tingle; a thrill.

Anagrams

• lidden