ellinge

comparative more ellinge · superlative most ellinge · alternative elenge · alternative ellenge

1. KentdialectalobsoleteSussexIsolated, lonely, dreary, unsettling.

   ELlinge: Solitary, lonely, melancholy, farre from neighbours: q. elongatus. Suß. a Gallico Eſloigner. Ellende in the Ancient Saxon ſignifies procul, farre off, farre from.

   [1674, John Ray, “[South and East Countrey Words.]”, in A Collection of English Words. Not Generally Used, with Their Significations and Original, […], London: […] H. Bruges for Tho[mas] Burrell […], →OCLC, page 65

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   His barn stood in a very elenge lonesome place, a goodish bit from de house, and de Pharisees used to come dere a nights and thresh out some wheat and wuts for him, so dat de hep o' threshed corn was ginnerly bigger in de mornin dan when he left it overnight.

   1854, Mark Antony Lower, “The South Downs—A Sketch”, in Contributions to Literature: Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical, London: John Russell Smith, →OCLC, page 161

   […] but when the sea is so ellinge, and you can't see far into the muddy waves for the white drift of foam-then any one used to such a sight begins to think whose boat will come home, or who may be missing before another sun rises.

   1880, Ellen E. Lushington, “Chapter II: Mary”, in A Land and Sea Story, London: Walter Smith, page 17