dingle

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having good weather. slang
    — Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.

词形变化

dingles plural more dingle comparative most dingle superlative

词源

From Middle English dingle (“a deep hollow; dell”), from Old English *dyngel, a diminutive of Old English dung (“dungeon; pit”), equivalent to dung + -le (diminutive suffix). Compare Saterland Frisian Dongel (“hollow tooth, cavity”), English dimble (“a dingle, glen, retired place”).
Related to dungeon.
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