dingle

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

dingle (plural dingles)

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

     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.

• dingle-dangle (etymologically unrelated)

• elding, engild, gilden, ingled

Related to dangle and denge

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1. to dangle, hang, swing

• “dingle” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• dingla

Delated to dangle and denge

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1. to dangle, hang, swing

• “dingle” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.