dingle meaning (slang): definition, etymology and quotations

dingle

adjalso spelled Dingle

Slang Having good weather.

Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.1978, Anthony Smith, Wilderness, page 40:
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 […]1989, Nautical Quarterly, volume 45, page 24:

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

Related terms: dingle-dangle, dingle stick

Dingle

noun

/ˈdɪŋɡl̩/

Etymology From Irish An Daingean, Daingean Uí Chúi (“fort of Ó Cúis”), from daingean (“fortress”).

Sheffield Someone from Barnsley

dingle

noun

Etymology 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.

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.1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, “Chapter 4”, in The Two Towers, Book III:

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