Ginnel vs Motorway - What's the difference?
ginnel | motorway |
(British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
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* 1988 , , Penguin Books 1988, page 169
(British, Ireland, New Zealand, parts of Australia) A broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the United States and other places called freeway.
As nouns the difference between ginnel and motorway
is that ginnel is (british|especially yorkshire and lancashire) a narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses while motorway is (british|ireland|new zealand|parts of australia) a broad highway designed for high speed traffic, having restrictions on the vehicle types permitted and merging lanes instead of cross traffic; in parts of the united states and other places called freeway.ginnel
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Alternative forms
* guinnel * gennelNoun
(en noun)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.
- 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.