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Ginnel vs Kennel - What's the difference?

ginnel | kennel |

As nouns the difference between ginnel and kennel

is that ginnel is a narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses while kennel is a house or shelter for a dog.

As a verb kennel is

to house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).

ginnel

English

Alternative forms

* guinnel * gennel

Noun

(en noun)
  • (British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
  • * 1885 , , Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland , page 59:
    • … maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel ov a wyndy neet waitin o'th' sweetheart comin out.
  • * 1988 , , Penguin Books 1988, page 169
    • At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood.

    Synonyms

    * alley, alleyway, passage, passageway

    kennel

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from a *canile , ultimately from (etyl) canis

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A house or shelter for a dog.
    • – We want to look at the dog kennels .
    – That's the pet department, second floor.
  • A facility at which dogs are reared or boarded.
    • The town dog-catcher operates the kennel for strays.
    She raises registered Dalmatians at her kennel .
  • (UK) The dogs kept at such a facility; a pack of hounds.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
    • A world of mere Patent-Digesters will soon have nothing to digest: such world ends, and by Law of Nature must end, in ‘over-population;’ in howling universal famine, ‘impossibility,’ and suicidal madness, as of endless dog-kennels run rabid.
  • The hole of a fox or other animal.
    • Synonyms
    * (shelter for a dog) doghouse

    Verb

  • To house or board a dog (or less commonly another animal).
    • While we're away our friends will kennel our pet poodle.
  • To lie or lodge; to dwell, as a dog or a fox.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The dog kennelled in a hollow tree.

    Etymology 2

    See channel, canal.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A gutter at the edge of a street.
  • * 1899 , Guy Boothby, Pharos the Egyptian
    • A biting wind whistled through the streets, the pavements were dotted with umbrella-laden figures, the kennels ran like mill-sluices, while the roads were only a succession of lamp-lit puddles through which the wheeled traffic splashed continuously.
    (Bishop Hall)
  • (obsolete) A puddle.