dingle
/ˈdɪŋɡl̩/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.65 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort."
- "Indeed, on a dingle day in the Antarctic your optimism soars about what you can do. After three days of blustery weather we woke up to […]"
- "On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice."
Etymology
From Middle English dingle (“a deep hollow; dell”), from Old English *dyngel, a diminutive of Old English dung (“dungeon; pit”), equivalent to dung + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian Dongel (“hollow tooth, cavity”), English dimble (“a dingle, glen, retired place”). Related to dungeon.