dingle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋɡl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡəl

Noun

dingle (plural dingles)

1. A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
   • 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Chapter 4”, in The Two Towers, Book III:

     Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.

Adjective

dingle (comparative more dingle, superlative most dingle)

1. (Antarctica, slang) Having good weather.

   Antonyms: mank, manky

   • 1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40:

     Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.

   • 1989, Nautical Quarterly, volume 45, page 24:

     Indeed, on a dingle day in the Antarctic your optimism soars about what you can do. After three days of blustery weather we woke up to […]

   • 2004, John Kelly, Due South: An Antarctic Journal, page 53:

     On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice.