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▪ I. dingle, n.|ˈdɪŋg(ə)l|
[Of uncertain origin. A single example meaning ‘deep hollow, abyss’ is known in 13th c.; otherwise, the word appears to have been only in dialectal use till the 17th c., when it began to appear in literature. In the same sense dimble is known from the 16th c. Dimble and dingle might be phonetic doublets: cf. cramble and crangle.]
A deep dell or hollow; now usually applied (app. after Milton) to one that is closely wooded or shaded with trees; but, according to Ray and in mod. Yorkshire dialect, the name of a deep narrow cleft between hills.
a1240Sowles Warde in Cott. Hom. 263 His runes ant his domes þe derne beoð ant deopre þen eni sea dingle [= abyss of the sea: cf. Ps. xxxv. 6 Vulg. Judicia tua abyssus multa]. 1630Drayton Muses Elizium ii. 29 In Dingles deepe, and Mountains hore..They cumbated the tusky Boare. 1634Milton Comus 311, I know each lane, and every alley green, Dingle, or bushy dell of this wild wood. 1636James Iter Lanc. 357 Amongst y⊇ Dingles and y⊇ Apennines. 1674Ray N.C. Words 14 Dingle, a small clough or valley between two steep hills. 1757Dyer Fleece i. 134 Dingles and dells, by lofty fir embow'r'd. 1796Southey Occas. Pieces v. Poems II. 226 Seek some sequestered dingle's coolest shade. 1810Scott Lady of L. iii. i. 12 Both field and forest, dingle, cliff, and dell, And solitary heath, the signal knew. 1876Whitby Gloss., Dingle, a cleft or narrow valley between two hills.
Hence ˈdingly a., abounding in dingles, of the nature of a dingle.
1841Hodgson Hist. Northmbld. ii. III. 393/2 Stonecroft burn..joins the dingly channel of the brook. 1855Chamb. Jrnl. III. 260 Sweet dingly dells and bosky bowers.
▪ II. dingle, v.|ˈdɪŋg(ə)l|
[In sense 1 app. dim. of ding v.2: cf. tingle, jingle. But in the other senses mixed up with dindle and tingle.]
1. intr. To ring as a bell, or glass; to tinkle, jingle. Hence ˈdingling vbl. n.
1827Praed Poems (1865) II. 220 Thus north and south, and east and west, The chimes of Hymen dingle. 1849Knife & Fork 16 Amid the dingling of glasses.
†2. intr. To ring or tingle, as the ears with sound.
1573–80Baret Alv. D 750 Dingle or dindle: mine eares ring, or dingle, tiniunt aures.
3. intr. and trans. To tingle (with cold, a blow, etc.).
1854R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. & Art (1862) 18 If its particles happen to be set a-vibrating by a sharp dingling blow. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Dingle, to tingle. ‘I've nettled mysen, an' my fingers dingles unberable.’ 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., My arm begins to dingle and feel queer.
4. intr. To vibrate with sound; = dindle v. 2.
1833Scott Wav. xliv, ‘Garring the very stane-and-lime wa's dingle wi' his screeching.’ [So later edd.; original ed., 1814, had dinnle, the Scotch form of dindle.] |