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Shingle vs Whingle - What's the difference?

shingle | whingle |

As verbs the difference between shingle and whingle

is that shingle is to cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles or shingle can be (industry) to hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy while whingle is (rare) to complain; whinge.

As a noun shingle

is a small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building or shingle can be a punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking or shingle can be small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.

shingle

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) scincle, from (etyl) scindula.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
  • * Ray
    • I reached St. Asaph, where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles.
  • A rectangular piece of steel obtained by means of a shingling process involving hammering of puddled steel.
  • A small signboard designating a professional office; this may be both a physical signboard or a metaphoric term for a small production company (a production shingle).

    • See also

    * shake * tile

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • To cover with small, thin pieces of building material, with shingles.
  • To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, like shingles on a roof.

    • Derived terms

    * shingler * shingly * to hang out one's shingle

    Etymology 2

    From dialectal (etyl)

    Verb

    (shingl)
  • (industry) To hammer and squeeze material in order to expel cinder and impurities from it, as in metallurgy.
  • To lash with a shingle.
    • ''The imp's bottom was shingled black and blue

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A punitive strap such as a belt, as used for severe spanking
  • (by extension) Any paddle used for corporal punishment

    • Etymology 3

    Probably cognate to the (etyl) , both imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles.

    Noun

    (-)
  • Small, smooth pebbles, as found on a beach.
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    • References

    * * (CorPun) & [http://www.corpun.com/picpar.htm

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    whingle

    English

    Verb

  • (rare) to complain; whinge.
  • *? , Friends in Need :
    • "They don't give us comps here," he whingles , "What was I supposed to do?"
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    • , year=13 October 1996 , author=Steve Kellett , group=alt.drunken.bastards , title=Re: Drunk Kids in an ALL AGES VENUE , link=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.drunken.bastards/nu5lQNYIK5o/ls-WohS15YYJ , text=, this is the last place to post this sort of whingling rubbish. }}
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    • , year=13 October 2002 , author=Heckler ²ºº² , group=alt.games.wolfenstein , title=Re: We need team-players FAST , link=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.games.wolfenstein/R_Fdoy7Hv74/AKDG8AZT86cJ , text=So don't whingle like an idiot and play the fecking game for fun. }}