wingle

发音

/wɪŋl/

词形变化

wingles 复数 wingles wingles 三单 wingling 现在分词 wingled 过去式 wingled 过去分词

别名

winkle weenkle wingl weengle waingle wengl

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fold or a convolution; something bent or twisted; a twist or a bend.

    苏格兰 方言

    That's an awful wingle of a road.

v.
  1. 1.

    To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.

    苏格兰 方言
  2. 2.

    To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait; wobble; meander.

    苏格兰 方言

词源

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”).

来源:wiktionary