different between rickle vs trickle

English

Etymology

From Scots rickle, from Old English hr?ac (“stack”) with the Scots suffix -le (“full (of)”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

rickle (plural rickles)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Canongate Books (2008), ?ISBN, page 22:

     It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old […]

2. (chiefly Scotland) A small rick of grain.
3. (chiefly Scotland) A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
   • 1844, Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter to Thomas Carlyle dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903), pages 136-137:

     We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on; […]

4. (chiefly Scotland) Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
   • 1899, Golf Illustrated, Volume 2, page 93:

     On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.

5. (chiefly Scotland) An emaciated person or animal.
   • 1899, Seumas MacManus, In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore, Doubleday & McClure (1899), page 228:

     But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rickle.

Related terms

• rick
• rickle o' banes

Anagrams

• Rickel, ickler, licker, relick

Scots

Noun

rickle (plural rickles)

1. A rickle (a heap, a jumble).
   • 1831, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Baudry's Foreign Library (1831), page 109:

     Rab Tull keepit a highland heart, and bang'd out o' bed, and till some of his readiest claes — and he did follow the thing up stairs and down stairs to the place we ca' the high dow-cot, (a sort of little tower in the corner of the auld house, where there was a rickle o' useless boxes and trunks,) and there the ghaist gae Rab a kick wi' the tae foot, […]

2. A rickle (a ramshackle building).
   • 1898, S. R. Crockett, Lochinvar, Harper & Brothers Publishers (1898), page 2:

     "Na, 'deed, Alisoun Begbie," cried Mistress Crombie once more, from the check of the door, "believe me when I tell ye that sic a braw city madam — and a widow forbye — doesna bide about an auld disjaskit rickle o' stanes like the Hoose o' the Grenoch withoot haeing mair in her head than just sending warnings to Clavers aboot the puir muirland folk, […]

3. A rickle (any object in poor condition).
   • 1863, David Wingate, "Address to an Ass", in Poems and Songs, William Blackwood and Sons (1863), page 92:

     Thou kicks thy rickle o' a cart

     Wi' angry heels.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rickle.

Related terms

• rickle o' banes

English

Etymology

Originally of tears; from strickle, frequentative of to strike, by elision (probably because tears trickle is easier to pronounce than tears strickle).

For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, umpire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t??k?l/
• Rhymes: -?k?l

Noun

trickle (plural trickles)

1. A very thin river.

   The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.

2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.

   The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

   • 1897, James Bryce, Impressions of South Africa

     The streams that run south and east from the mountains to the coast are short and rapid torrents after a storm, but at other times dwindle to feeble trickles of mud.

Translations

Verb

trickle (third-person singular simple present trickles, present participle trickling, simple past and past participle trickled)

1. (transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

   The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.

2. (intransitive) to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously.

   Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 21

     Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
3. (intransitive) To move or roll slowly.

Derived terms

• trickle truth

Translations

Anagrams

• tickler