dingle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dingle
1200–50; Middle English: a deep dell, hollow; akin to Old English dung dungeon, Old High German tunc cellar
Example Sentences
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Winfrey remembered her as the most challenging of novelists, one for whom a dingle reading was never enough.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2019
At Pinehurst, it’s actually called wire grass, but dingle dangles will work, too.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
What do you say�a dingle, dale, gulch, dell, vale or gully?
From Time Magazine Archive
Long tree-clad slopes rose from the lip of the dingle, and away beyond them, above the fir-trees of the furthest ridge there rose, sharp and white, the peak of a high mountain.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
The sun had now risen high enough to look over the high hedge: it gleamed on the tops of the birches and lit the northward side of the dingle with a cool yellow light.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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