wingle

noun /wɪŋl/

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

   That's an awful wingle of a road.

Where it comes from

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”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wingle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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