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Cringle vs Cringe - What's the difference?

cringle | cringe |

As nouns the difference between cringle and cringe

is that cringle is a short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc while cringe is a posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.

As a verb cringe is

to bow or crouch in servility.

cringle

English

Alternative forms

* crengle, crenkle

Noun

(wikipedia cringle) (en noun)
  • (nautical) A short piece of rope, arranged as a grommet around a metal ring, used to attach tackle to a sail etc.
  • A withe for fastening a gate.
  • Anagrams

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    cringe

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A posture or gesture of shrinking or recoiling.
  • He glanced with a cringe at the mess on his desk.
  • (dialect) A crick.
  • Verb

  • (dated) To bow or crouch in servility.
  • * Milton
  • Sly hypocrite, who more than thou / Once fawned and cringed , and servilely adored / Heaven's awful monarch?
  • * 1903 , ,
  • He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.
  • * 1904 , ,
  • Leclere was bent on the coming of the day when Batard should wilt in spirit and cringe and whimper at his feet.
  • To shrink, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment.
  • He cringed as the bird collided with the window.
  • * Bunyan
  • When they were come up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions.
  • * 1917 , ,
  • But he made no whimper. Nor did he wince or cringe to the blows. He bored straight in, striving, without avoiding a blow, to beat and meet the blow with his teeth.
  • (obsolete) To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Till like a boy you see him cringe his face, / And whine aloud for mercy.

    Derived terms

    * cringeworthy

    See also

    * crouch * wince

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