ginnel
English
A ginnel in Barrowford, Lancashire.
Alternative forms
- guinnel
- gennel
Etymology
From ginn (“a road or passage down to the sea”) + -el (diminutive suffix), ultimately from Old English ginn (“an opening, abyss”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪnəl/
- Rhymes: -ɪnəl
Noun
ginnel (plural ginnels)
- (Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.
- 1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland, page 59:
- … maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel ov a wyndy neet waitin o'th' sweetheart comin out.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming Pool Library, Penguin Books 1988, page 169
- At the end of a short side-street a narrow ginnel with concrete bollards led into the surprisingly wide area in which the blocks of flats stood.
- 1885, Benjamin Brierley, Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland, page 59:
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- For semantic relationships of this term, see alley in the Thesaurus.
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