{"id":2328,"date":"2010-02-11T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2010-02-11T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T16:09:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-wintle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2328","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; wintle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word <strong>wintle<\/strong> [&#8216;win\u0259l \/ &#8216;wint\u0259l] in Louis de Berni\u00e8res&#8217; novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/184655330X\/omniglot-21\"><em>Notwithstanding<\/em><\/a>, which I just finished reading. From the context &#8211; she walks carefully so as not to wintle on the rimy Bargate stones of the path &#8211; I guessed that it meant to slip or something similar. <\/p>\n<p>According the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/wintle\">Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary<\/a> it&#8217;s Scottish and means to stagger, reel or wriggle. It&#8217;s possibly comes from the Dutch word <em>windtelen<\/em> (to reel).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/wintle\">Dictionary.com<\/a> defines it as 1. (noun) a rolling or staggering motion. 2. (verb) to roll or swing back and forth. 3. (verb) to tumble over; capsize.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard this word before?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word wintle [&#8216;win\u0259l \/ &#8216;wint\u0259l] in Louis de Berni\u00e8res&#8217; novel Notwithstanding, which I just finished reading. From the context &#8211; she walks carefully so as not to wintle on the rimy Bargate stones of the path &#8211; I guessed that it meant to slip or something similar. According the Merriam-Webster Online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}