Wintle vs Wittle - What's the difference?
wintle | wittle |
(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 ,
* 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings ,
(Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
(Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
* 1901 , , 2011,
(Scotland) To wriggle.
* 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US,
(childish, nonstandard) Little.
* 2004 , Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies
* 2005 , Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world
* 2006 , Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind
* 2007 , Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace
As verbs the difference between wintle and wittle
is that wintle is to wind, to reel while wittle is misspelling of lang=en.As an adjective wittle is
little.wintle
English
Verb
(wintl)page 266,
- The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
page 282,
- Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
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!
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
* wintlerReferences
*Anagrams
*wittle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
- Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
- ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle -bitty baby...
- With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."
