α. late Middle English gynner, late Middle English 1700s–1800s ginner.
β. Scottish 1800s ginnel, 1800s ginull, 1800s gunnal, 1800s– ginnle, 1800s– gunnle.
ginnlen.
/ˈɡɪnl/, U.S. /ˈɡɪn(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈɡɪnl/ Scottish and English regional (northern) after Middle English.
A gill of a fish. Usually in plural. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use in Ayrshire in 1954, but marks it as obsolescent.
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the world > animals > fish > parts of fish > [noun] > gill(s) or parts of
ginnle?c1475
gill vein1683
arista1691
radius1691
fish-ear1748
operculum1752
flap1803
opercle1808
subopercle1822
preoperculum1828
preopercule1842
preopercular1851
interoperculum1855
preoperclec1857
raker1903
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 55 Gynner [1483 BL Add. 89074 ginner] of a fysche,..branchia.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) 90 Ginners, the gills of a fish.
1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. (at cited word) He had swallowed the bait greedily, the huik was sticking in his ‘ginners’.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Ginnles, the gills of a fish, Ayrs.
1836 J. Ramsay Poems 131 They're fish, nae doubt, in finer shells, And redder 'bout the ginnels.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Ginners, the gills of a fish.
1895 Lit. Digest 15 June 27/2 In the North of Ireland the term [for guddling] is ‘ginnling’. The latter comes probably from the Scotch ‘ginner’, or ‘ginnel’, a fish's gill.
1996 S. Blackhall Wittgenstein's Web 89 The quyne bedd wi the fush... She sterted tae straik her fingers ower its ringie mou, its ginnles, its tailie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
ginnlev.
/ˈɡɪnl/, U.S. /ˈɡɪn(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈɡɪnl/, Irish English /ˈɡɪnl/ Scottish and Irish English (northern).
transitive. To tickle (a fish, a fish's gills or belly); to catch (fish, esp. trout) by tickling the gills or belly. Also intransitive: to hunt (for fish) in this way with the hands, or with a small loop attached to a stick.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > catch with hands
tickle1707
guddle1818
ginnle1819
tail1872
1819 J. Rennie St. Patrick III. ii. 42 Ye..took me aiblins for a black-fisher it was gaun to ginle the chouks o' ye.
1885 Law Rep.: Appeal Cases 10 388 The boy who was ginneling trout would observe..that..there was then no bridge, but a deep pool.
1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xiii. 88 I sighed..for a lang simmer's day..to ginnle trouts with John Paiks in the Roughburn.
1897 S. MacManus Lad of O'Friels 22 I would ginnle a trout or two.
1929 W. F. Marshall Ballads & Verses Tyrone 56 So he thrinneld his hoop an' waded the burn An' ginneld for spricklybags.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 145/1 Ginnle, tickle, catch (fish, especially trout) with the hands or with a small loop attached to a stick.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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