dingle

[ding-guhl]

noun

1. a deep, narrow cleft between hills; shady dell.

dingle

/ ˈdɪŋɡəl /

noun

1. a small wooded dell

Word History and Origins

Origin of dingle¹

1200–50; Middle English: a deep dell, hollow; akin to Old English dung dungeon, Old High German tunc cellar

Word History and Origins

Origin of dingle¹

C13: of uncertain origin

Example Sentences

The game is light fun, yes, but I just cannot commit to a sport that takes seriously terms like “dingles” and “flapjack” and where falafel does not refer to a food I love.

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Winfrey remembered her as the most challenging of novelists, one for whom a dingle reading was never enough.

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The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.

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About mid-afternoon, she made her way to the office and the phone rang - not a regular ring - kind of a short two dingle.

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At Pinehurst, it’s actually called wire grass, but dingle dangles will work, too.

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Related Words

• basin 
• canyon 
• gorge 
• lowland 
• plain