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Word entry · 6 letters

dingle

Best crossword clue

"Wooded hollow"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/Part of speech nounSorted degilnStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a small wooded hollow

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.
  • 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 […]
  • On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice.

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