Tumble vs Wintle - What's the difference?

tumble | wintle |


As verbs the difference between tumble and wintle

is that tumble is (lb) to fall end over end while wintle is (scotland) to wind, to reel.

As a noun tumble

is a fall.

tumble

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A fall.
  • I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
  • An act of sexual intercourse.
  • * John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
  • Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
  • * 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
  • When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.

    Derived terms

    * rough and tumble * take a tumble * tumble dryer * tumbler * give a tumble

    Verb

    (tumbl)
  • (lb) To fall end over end.
  • *(Robert South) (1634–1716)
  • *:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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  • *:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
  • To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
  • :(Rowe)
  • To roll over and over.
  • *1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
  • *:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
  • (lb) To have sexual intercourse.
  • (lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
  • To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
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  • Derived terms

    * tumble to

    wintle

    English

    Verb

    (wintl)
  • (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
  • * Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell'', 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), ''The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746 , page 266,
  • The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
  • * 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings , page 282,
  • Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
  • (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
  • (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
  • * 1901 , , 2011, page 214,
  • At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
  • (Scotland) To wriggle.
  • * 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US, page 222,
  • Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.

    Derived terms

    * wintler

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