wintle
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See also: Wintle
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch windtelen (“to reel”); compare wentelen.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪntəl
Verb[edit]
wintle (third-person singular simple present wintles, present participle wintling, simple past and past participle wintled)
- (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
- c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,
- The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
- 1974, Austin Clarke, quoted in 1981, G. Craig Tapping, Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings, page 282,
- Along the cliffs a breeze wintled.
- c. 1688-1746, Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell, 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746, page 266,
- (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
- (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
- 1901, George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters, published 2011, page 214:
- At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
- (Scotland) To wriggle.
- 2002, Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey, US, page 222:
- Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967