Rickle vs Ickle - What's the difference?
rickle | ickle |
A loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble.
* 1932 , , Sunset Song , Canongate Books (2008), ISBN 9781847673596,
A dilapidated or ramshackle building.
* 1844 , dated 28 June 1844, re-printed in New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (ed. Alexander Carlyle), John Lane (1903),
Any object in poor condition, particularly a vehicle.
* 1899 , Golf Illustrated , Volume 2, page 93:
An emaciated person or animal.
* 1899 , , In Chimney Corners: Merry Tales of Irish Folk Lore , Doubleday & McClure (1899),
As nouns the difference between rickle and ickle
is that rickle is a loose, disordered collection of things; a heap; a jumble while ickle is (dialectal) an icicle.As an adjective ickle is
(childish) little.rickle
English
Noun
(en noun)page 22:
- It was no more than a butt and a ben, with a rickle of sheds behind it where old Pooty kept his donkey that was nearly as old
pages 136-137:
- We came home by a place called Speke Hall — built 1589 — the queerest-looking old rickle of boards that I ever set eyes on;
- On a memorable night was the old rickle of a boat taken out to the West Sands during a terrible storm, when Admiral Maitland Dougall distinguished himself by his valiant services.
page 228:
- But it's a bad disaise that can't be cured somehow, Manis said to himself — so be began to consider how to sell his rickle of a pony to advantage.
