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Dingle

//ˈdɪŋɡl̩// adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective

1
Having good weather. slang
"Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort."

Proper Noun

1
A harbour town in County Kerry, Ireland and the peninsula on which it stands.
2
An area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3687).
3
A surname.

Noun

1
A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
"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."
2
Someone from Barnsley Sheffield
3
a small wooded hollow wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Irish An Daingean, Daingean Uí Chúi (“fort of Ó Cúis”), from daingean (“fortress”).

Etymology 3

From Irish An Daingean, Daingean Uí Chúi (“fort of Ó Cúis”), from daingean (“fortress”).

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