Cingle vs Tingle - What's the difference?
cingle | tingle |
A kind of belt or other girdle.
* 1990 , Guy Davenport, The Drummer of the Eleventh North Devonshire Fusiliers :
To have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation.
To make ringing sounds, to twang.
*1851 ,
*:Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes.
* Charles Dickens
To ring
To cause to ring
* 1874 , , fit 2:
As verbs the difference between cingle and tingle
is that cingle is while tingle is to have a prickling or mildly stinging sensation or tingle can be to ring.As an adjective cingle
is nuts, bonkers, crazy.As a noun tingle is
a prickling or stinging sensation.cingle
English
Noun
(en noun)- A triangle of arcs, her slip , flag red, and her friend with a swimmer’s back and saucery hollows in his solidly boxed buttocks was cupped into a gauze pouch and cingle .
tingle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(tingl)- sharp tingling bells
Etymology 2
Verb
(tingl)- the Captain they trusted so well
- Had only one notion for crossing the ocean,
- And that was to tingle his bell.