different between icicle vs eckle

English

Etymology

From Middle English isykle, isikel, equivalent to ice +? ickle. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Iesjuukel (“icicle”), German Low German Iesjökel, dialectal Danish jisegel (“icicle”), Norwegian isjukel (“icicle”) and Elfdalian aisikkel.

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /???s?k?l/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a?s.?kl?/, /?a?.s?.kl?/

Noun

icicle (plural icicles)

1. A drooping, tapering shape of ice.

Derived terms

• icicle radish
• popsicle

Translations

Anagrams

• cilice

English

Alternative forms

• eccle

Etymology 1

From a variation of ickle (“icicle”), from Middle English ikil, ykle, from Old English ?icel (“ice, icicle”), from Proto-Germanic *jikilaz, *jekulaz (“piece of ice”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyH- (“icefloe, icicle”). More at ickle.

Noun

eckle (plural eckles)

1. (dialectal) An icicle.
2. (dialectal, usually in the plural) The crest of a cock.
3. (dialectal) A woodpecker.

Etymology 2

Alteration of ettle.

Verb

eckle (third-person singular simple present eckles, present participle eckling, simple past and past participle eckled)

1. (intransitive, Northern England) To aim; intend; design.

Anagrams

• Cleek, Eckel, cleek