wingle

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

Compare Swedish vingla (“to wobble”), Norwegian vingle (“to wobble”).

IPA^(key): /wɪŋl/

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.
2. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be unsteady on one's feet; to walk with an unsteady gait.

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