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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small wooded valley; a dell.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A small, secluded, and embowered valley.
  2. n. The protecting weather-shed built around the entrance to a house.
  3. To shake; vibrate.
  4. n. The roofed-over space between the kitchen and the sleeping-quarters in a logging-camp, commonly used as a storeroom.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a small wooded hollow

Etymologies

  1. From an alteration of dimble ("a dingle, glen, retired place"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, dell, hollow. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “True," said Mr. Petulengro; "why bring what's low to the dingle, which is low enough already?”

    The Romany Rye

  • “True,' said Mr. Petulengro; 'why bring what's low to the dingle, which is low enough already?”

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro'

  • “However, bright, sunny ( "dingle") days can occur, particularly in November and December.”

    South Orkney Islands

  • “This shelter was called the "dingle," and contained the camp grindstone and spare sled equipment.”

    The Rainy Day Railroad War

  • “And, observe the art of it, under all the simplicity -- notice, for example, the curious weird effect produced by the studied repetition of the word "dingle" coming ever round and round like the master-note in a chime.”

    Through the Magic Door

  • “dingle," gazing mournfully out into the smother of snowflakes.”

    The Rainy Day Railroad War

  • “Â Not Abe Vigoda old, not Dick Clark old, not Methusalah old, but honest-to-flargi - and-dingle old: Âcenturies, perhaps thousands of years old.”

    Review: Powers #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News

  • “Near the left-hand corner of the grove which surrounded the dingle, and about ten yards from the fire-ball, I perceived a chaise, with a postillion on the box, who was making efforts, apparently useless, to control his horses, which were kicking and plunging in the highest degree of excitement.”

    16 posts from March 2010

  • “I hope he doen't continue to flip flop and NASA gets the funding and support it needs to be successful. danilo dingle”

    Obama says he is committed to future of NASA

  • “But it hasn't just been the nuts with their sidearms, misspelled signs, and dingle ball hats.”

    The Huffington Post: Ian Gurvitz: Put Hate Speech in the Crosshairs

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. valley
  1. ring

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. holler
  1. hollow

same context (23)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. secuya
  2. ghyll
  3. clough
  4. ring-a-ding
  1. glen
  2. humongous
  3. walk-off
  4. copse
  1. coppice
  2. brae
  3. dell
  4. quatrain
  1. dong
  2. lettere
  3. ding
  4. tocsin
  1. dale
  2. bleat
  3. bootjack
  4. Shaw
  1. canzonet
  2. hamadryad
  3. alarum

rhymes (16)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Pringle
  2. bingle
  3. commingle
  1. hingle
  2. ingle
  3. intermingle
  1. jingle
  2. lingle
  3. mingle
  1. pringle
  2. ringle
  3. shingle
  1. singel
  2. single
  3. swingle
  1. tingle

reverse dictionary (3)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. dimble
  1. lonk
  1. pipe

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  • bodhi Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
    About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
    The night above the dingle starry,
    Time let me hail and climb
    Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
    And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
    And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
    Trail with daisies and barley
    Down the rivers of the windfall light. Nov 20, 2008

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