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
Altogether there were about two dozen standing on the wide grassy floor of the dingle, and as many more were marching in.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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