wingle
/wɪŋl/
wingle verb: to bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
Verb
wingle (third-person singular simple present wingles, present participle wingling, simple past and past participle wingled)
Noun
wingle (plural wingles)
- A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
- That's an awful wingle of a road.
wingle meaning in Bengali
wingle in Bengali
- বাঁকানো, মোচড়ানো, টলোমলো ভাবে হাঁটা, আঁকাবাঁকা পথে চলা, একটি ভাঁজ, কুঞ্চন
Forms of wingle
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | wingles |
| present participle | wingling |
| past participle | wingled |
| past | wingled |
| alternative form | winkle |
| alternative form | weenkle |
| alternative form | wingl |
| alternative form | weengle |
| alternative form | waingle |
| alternative form | wengl |
| Noun | |
| plural | wingles |
Origin of wingle
From a merger of wangle, and dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk vingla (“to flutter, stumble about, go hither and thither, go astray, dangle”), related to Norwegian Bokmål vingle (“to wobble”), Swedish vingla (“to wobble”).
Words formed from wingle
- wingle-wangle
Questions about wingle
- What does wingle mean?
- Wingle means to bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
- What is wingle in Bengali?
- Wingle in Bengali is বাঁকানো, মোচড়ানো, টলোমলো ভাবে হাঁটা. See Wingle meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is wingle?
- Wingle can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce wingle?
- Wingle is pronounced /wɪŋl/.
- What is the past tense of wingle?
- The past tense of wingle is wingled.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: wingle (page history and authors); wingle (Bengali 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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