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wingle

Pronunciation: /wɪŋl/

The English word “wingle” has 3 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
  2. To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait; wobble; meander.

noun

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

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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