dring

Dialectal variant of thring.

dring (third-person singular simple present drings, present participle dringing, simple past and past participle dringed)

1. (Britain, dialectal, transitive) To press; squeeze; crowd; push.

• dringing

dring (plural drings)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A throng; crowd.
2. (Britain, dialectal) A narrow passage.

• drang
• dringe

• grind

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

dring

1. first-person singular present indicative of dringen
2. imperative of dringen

• grind

• IPA^(key): /dʁiŋ/

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dring

1. brrr, whirr (a whirring sound, such as that of a machine)

• drelin

• “dring” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Possibly from Danish dreng. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian dräng, Sylt North Frisian Dreeng.

dring m (plural dringer)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) boy, son

   As't'n dring of as't'n foomen?

   Is it a boy or girl?

From English drink.

dring

1. drink