dingle

noun

1. A small, narrow or enclosed, usually wooded valley.

   “Turning to the left and skirting this huge hedge Treebeard came in a few strides to a narrow entrance. Through it a worn path passed and dived suddenly down a long steep slope. The hobbits saw that they were descending into a great dingle, almost as round as a bowl, very wide and deep, crowned at the rim with the high dark evergreen hedge.”

2. (Sheffield)Someone from Barnsley

adj

1. (slang)Having good weather.

   “Antarctica can be dingle, with clear skies, or mank, with nothing of the sort.”

   “Indeed, on a dingle day in the Antarctic your optimism soars about what you can do. After three days of blustery weather we woke up to […]”

   “On this 'dingle' day the last breezes of summer blow from the south. Sitting at Garnet Hill I am blinded by the sunlight on the ice.”

name

1. A harbour town in County Kerry, Ireland and the peninsula on which it stands.
2. An area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SJ3687).
3. A surname.