Windle vs Widdle - What's the difference?
windle | widdle |
An old English measure of corn, half a bushel.
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 208.
Dog-tail grass, Plantago lanceolata .
Bent grass.
(chiefly, British) To urinate
(colloquial) To play guitar fast. This is generally in reference to electric guitar.
(childish, chiefly, US) Little; used in imitation of childish speech.
As a noun windle
is the redwing.As a verb widdle is
to urinate.As an adjective widdle is
little; used in imitation of childish speech.windle
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from wind.Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- In the Derby household book of 1561, wheat, malt, and oats are sold by the quarter and the windle , in which the quarter clearly contained sixteen windles, and must have been a wholly different measure from that which we are familiar.