wingle
English
Alternative forms
- winkle, weenkle, wingl, weengle, waingle, wengl
Etymology
Compare Swedish vingla (“to wobble”), Norwegian vingle (“to wobble”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /wɪŋl/
Verb
wingle (third-person singular simple present wingles, present participle wingling, simple past and past participle wingled)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bend or twist.
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait.
Noun
wingle (plural wingles)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
- That's an awful wingle of a road.
Derived terms
- wingle-wangle
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- The English Dialect Dictionary
Anagrams
- lewing