wingle
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Etymology edit
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”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
wingle (third-person singular simple present wingles, present participle wingling, simple past and past participle wingled)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait; wobble; meander.
Noun edit
wingle (plural wingles)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
- That's an awful wingle of a road.