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ellinge

/ˈɛlɪnd͡ʒ/

ellinge adjective: isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.

Adjective

ellinge (comparative more ellinge, superlative most ellinge)

  1. (Kent, dialectal, obsolete, Sussex) Isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.
    • ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from.[1674, John Ray, “[South and East Countrey Words.]”, in A Collection of English Words. Not Generally Used, with Their Significations and Original, […], London: […] H. Bruges for Tho[mas] Burrell […]...
    • His barn stood in a very elenge lonesome place, a goodish bit from de house, and de Pharisees used to come dere a nights and thresh out some wheat and wuts for him, so dat de hep o' threshed corn was ginnerly bigger in de mornin dan when he left it overnight.1854, Mark Antony Lower, “The South Downs—A Sketch”, in Contributions to Literature: Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical, London: John Russell Smith, →OCLC, page 161

Forms of ellinge

comparativemore ellinge
superlativemost ellinge
alternative formelenge
alternative formellenge

Origin of ellinge

Inherited from Middle English elenge, elynge, from Old English ǣlenġe, from ǣ- (“without”) + lenġe (“related, belonging”). Compare similar fossilised formations with ǣ-: empty and oakum.

Questions about ellinge

What does ellinge mean?
Ellinge means isolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.
What part of speech is ellinge?
Ellinge is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ellinge?
Ellinge is pronounced /ˈɛlɪnd͡ʒ/.

Words near ellinge in the dictionary

  1. Ellie
  2. Ellijay
  3. Elliminyt
  4. Ellinbank
  5. Elling Woman
  6. ellinge
  7. Ellinger
  8. Ellingers
  9. Ellingham
  10. Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley
  11. Ellinghams

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