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Pingle vs Dingle - What's the difference?

pingle | dingle |

As nouns the difference between pingle and dingle

is that pingle is a small piece of enclosed ground while dingle is a small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.

As a proper noun Dingle is

a harbour town in County Kerry Ireland, and the peninsula on which it stands.

pingle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A small piece of enclosed ground.
    • (Webster 1913)

    dingle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
  • * 1954 , , Chapter 4
    • 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.

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