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dwyle

dwyle is the alternative form of dwile.

Meaning of dwile

Noun

dwile (plural dwiles)

  1. (archaic) A cloth for wiping or cleaning.
    • For sixpence in that small nice inn, I had a glass of ale, my boots cleaned, and the excrescences cut off, my clothes wiped with a dwile, and then passed over with a brush, and was myself thanked over and over again.1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales
  2. The beer-soaked cloth thrown in the game of dwile flonking.

Forms of dwyle

pluraldwyles

Phrases with dwyle

Questions about dwyle

What is dwyle the alternative form of?
Dwyle is the alternative form of dwile.

Words near dwyle in the dictionary

  1. DWTS
  2. DWV
  3. Dwyer
  4. Dwyers
  5. Dwyfor
  6. dwyle
  7. dwyle flonking
  8. dwyle flunking
  9. dwyles
  10. Dwyriw
  11. Dwyryd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dwyle (page history and authors); dwile (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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