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English
Etymology
From a merger of wangle, and dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk vingla (“to flutter, stumble about, go hither and thither, go astray, dangle”), related to Norwegian Bokmål vingle (“to wobble”), Swedish vingla (“to wobble”).
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Verb
wingle (third-person singular simple present wingles, present participle wingling, simple past and past participle wingled)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait; wobble; meander.
Noun
wingle (plural wingles)
- (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.
That's an awful wingle of a road.
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