dingle
/ˈdɪŋɡl̩/
dingle noun: a small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
Noun (1)
dingle (plural dingles)
- 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...1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Chapter 4”, in The Two Towers, Book III
Adjective
dingle (comparative more dingle, superlative most dingle)
- Having good weather.
- Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40
- 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 […]1989, Nautical Quarterly, volume 45, page 24
Proper noun capitalized: Dingle
Dingle
Noun (2) capitalized: Dingle
Dingle (plural Dingles)
- Someone from Barnsley
- Synonyms:
- Barnsleyite
dingle meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
dingle in Tamil
- மர மடர் பள்ளத்தாக்கு
dingle in Malayalam
- valley, dale, vale
- താഴ്വര, വൃക്ഷനിബിഡമായ താഴ്വരപ്രദേശം, മലയോരപ്രദേശം, താഴ്വാരം, അകമല, കൊക്ക
dingle in Kannada
- ಆಳಕಣಿವೆ
Examples of dingle in a sentence
- 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.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Chapter 4”, in The Two Towers, Book III:
- On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south.2004, John Kelly, Due South: An Antarctic Journal, page 53:
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Forms of dingle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | dingles |
| plural | Dingles |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more dingle |
| superlative | most dingle |
Origin of dingle
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.
From Irish An Daingean, Daingean Uí Chúi (“fort of Ó Cúis”), from daingean (“fortress”).
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Questions about dingle
- What does dingle mean?
- Dingle means a small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
- What is dingle in Tamil?
- Dingle in Tamil is மர மடர் பள்ளத்தாக்கு. See Dingle meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use dingle in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is dingle?
- Dingle can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce dingle?
- Dingle is pronounced /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/.
- What is the plural of dingle?
- The plural of dingle is dingles.
Words near dingle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: dingle (page history and authors); Dingle (page history and authors); dingle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dingle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dingle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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