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    gin·nel
    [ˈɡɪn(ə)l]
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    early 17th century: perhaps from French chenel ‘channel’.
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    What is ginnel?
    A narrow alley. Usually leading through a rowof terraced houses in order to connect the street (in front of the rowof houses) to the "back alley" (running between this row of houses and the next). "Our cat ran up their ginnel" (A phrase used to indicatea very tenuousfamilialrelationship between two people.
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    What is the difference between a ginnel and a roof?
    In Wright’s Dialect Dictionary it is contrasted with ‘entry’ which is specifically said to have a roof – unlike a ginnel.
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    What is the difference between a ginnil and a Snicket?
    However, in the Holme Valley I was told that a ginnil ‘goes uphill and has setts whereas a snicket doesn’t – and it hasn’t’. The OED says that it has an obscure etymology but likens the word to ‘channel’ and offers the meaning as ‘a long narrow passage between houses, either roofed or unroofed’.
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    What Maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel?
    [ …] maks things as pleasant as stondin in a ginnel ov a wyndy neet waitin o'th' sweetheart comin out. 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.
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  3. Narrow passageway between buildings
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    ginnel / (ˈɡɪnəl, ˈdʒɪn-) / noun Northern English dialect a narrow passageway between buildings
    ginnel (ˈɡɪnəl; ˈdʒɪn-) n (Building) dialect Northern English a narrow passageway between buildings [C17: perhaps a corruption of channel1]
  4. https://www.thefreedictionary.com/ginnel

    ginnel. ( ˈɡɪnəl; ˈdʒɪn-) n. (Building) dialect Northern English a narrow passageway between buildings. [C17: perhaps a corruption of channel1] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014.

  5. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ginnel

    Sep 25, 2006 · ginnel. A narrow alley. Usually leading through a row of terraced houses in order to connect the street (in front of the row of houses) to the "back alley" (running between this row …

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    The Ginnel would be standin' at the back window, just to catch a chance to laugh at me if I gave the prisoners anythin' to eat. Tenting on the Plains | Elizabeth B. Custer SEE MORE EXAMPLES …

  7. https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/ginnel

    Ginnel definition: a narrow passageway between buildings | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

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    Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: ginnel noun. A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.

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    Ginnel as a noun means (UK, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.. Dictionary Thesaurus

  10. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ginnel

    Dec 09, 2021 · ginnel (plural ginnels) (England, especially Yorkshire, Lancashire, Manchester) A narrow passageway or alley often between terraced houses.

  11. Urban Dictionary: ginnel.

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    Manchester slang meaning alley way. Ginnelle is a genuinely caring and kind hearted female with a personality only her friends really understand. Even though she is a little bit shy, ginnelle will always help when you're in need. she is inspirational to many, sometimes called a muse.She rarely talks about her self and puts her friends and family before and hates it when friends doubt …

  12. Urban Dictionary: Ginnels

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    ginnel A narrow alley. Usually leading through a row of terraced houses in order to connect the street (in front of the row of houses) to the " back alley " (running between this row of houses …

  13. https://yorkshiredictionary.york.ac.uk/words/ginnel

    1) A narrow entrance between houses. Many dialect words have been lost in recent times but ‘ginnel’ survives in good health, acceptable in polite conversation and even in newspaper articles. In that respect it can be compared with ‘snicket’, as though the two fulfil a role in the language that English somehow cannot match: it must be suspected that most regions have their own …



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