wingle

• winkle, weenkle, wingl, weengle, waingle, wengl

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”).

• IPA^(key): /wɪŋl/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋl

wingle (third-person singular simple present wingles, present participle wingling, simple past and past participle wingled)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bend or twist; wriggle back and forth.
2. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait; wobble; meander.

wingle (plural wingles)

1. (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.

• wingle-wangle

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• The English Dialect Dictionary

• lewing