different between shoelace vs inkle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u??le?s/

Noun

shoelace (plural shoelaces)

1. A lace used for fastening a shoe.

Synonyms

• shoestring (US)

Meronyms

• aiglet

Derived terms

• shoelaced

Translations

See also

• bootlace
• lacing

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English inklen, inclen (“to give an inkling of, hint at, mention, utter in an undertone”), derived from inke (“apprehension, misgiving”), from Old English inca (“doubt, suspicion”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng- (“illness”). Cognate with Old Frisian jinc (“angered”), Old Norse ekki (“pain, grief”), Norwegian ekkje (“lack, pity”).

Verb

inkle (third-person singular simple present inkles, present participle inkling, simple past and past participle inkled)

1. (transitive, rare) To hint at; disclose.
2. (transitive, rare) To have a hint or inkling of; divine.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Related terms

• inkling

Etymology 2

Apparently from earlier *ingle, perhaps from an incorrect division of lingle, lingel.

Alternative forms

• incle

Noun

inkle (countable and uncountable, plural inkles)

1. Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, ‘Love's Labour's Lost’, Act III:

     COSTARD - '… What's the price of this inkle?'

Anagrams

• Elkin, Klein, Kline, k-line, kline, lekin, liken