Tingle vs Dingle - What's the difference?
tingle | dingle |
To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
To make ringing sounds, to twang.
*1851 ,
*:Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
* Charles Dickens
To ring
To cause to ring
* 1874 , , fit 2:
A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
* 1954 , , Chapter 4
As a verb tingle
is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation or tingle can be to ring.As a noun tingle
is a prickling or stinging sensation.As a proper noun dingle is
a harbour town in county kerry ireland, and the peninsula on which it stands.tingle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(tingl)- sharp tingling bells
Etymology 2
Verb
(tingl)- the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.
Anagrams
*dingle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. 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.