Singe vs Dinge - What's the difference?
singe | dinge |
To burn slightly.
* L'Estrange
To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it.
To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame.
Dinginess.
A black person.
*1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010 p. 3:
*:‘A dinge ,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 46:
*:‘You made a hit with the dinge ,’ Bob was saying.
To strike, scourge, or beat.
To flog, as in penance
As verbs the difference between singe and dinge
is that singe is to burn slightly while dinge is to strike, scourge, or beat.As nouns the difference between singe and dinge
is that singe is a burning of the surface; a slight burn while dinge is dinginess.singe
English
Verb
(d)- I singed the toes of an ape through a burning glass.