Ginnel

'I don't know what a "ginnel" is; but "fettle" is a verb. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

I saw some country men and women get in, and I just followed them; and, oh Sarah, what does "ginnel" mean, and a "fettle"? ' ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

Half-an-hour later the party in the motor stopped at the point of the main street from which a 'ginnel' or alley led to the Mickleroyds 'house, in one of the oldest parts of the town, and quite near the mills. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

A left fork along the brook, by Chorlton Park, the allotments, the garage in the ginnel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"You and Vera it'd be like throwing a chipolata up a ginnel," she giggled. ❋ Pawson, Stuart (1999)

'We've come to go up a ginnel,' said Horatia, her eyes twinkling. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

Oh miss, come into the ginnel [alley] till these men pass, 'cried Naomi, pulling Sarah into the said' ginnel, 'just in time to avoid a party of young men, who were evidently very excited, and were anathematising Mark Clay. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

I want to say I've been up one, and I can't bring it in unless I say, "I went up a ginnel at Ousebank,"'explained Horatia. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

Yon's a ginnel we are just passing, 'said the chauffeur to Horatia, slowing down as they passed what is generally called an alley, to which he pointed. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

And what particular one do you want to go up -- the ginnel against my mill? 'he inquired. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)

"Nah, gently does it," sed Sammywell, an they gethered raand in a ring an it lukt as if they wor just gooin to nab it, when Jerrymier sed "Shoo, shoo" an away it flew, clean ovver ther heeads, daan th 'ginnel an aght into ❋ John Hartley (1877)

Aw'm capt whativer made Becka ax her, for ther's hardly a woman i'th ginnel but what had leever goa a 'mile another rooad nor meet her; but aw declare shoo's comin' sailin 'daan like a fifty-gun ship! ❋ John Hartley (1877)

An away Susy flew daan th 'ginnel, famously suited wi' th 'way shoo'd capt 'em wi' her scholarship. ❋ John Hartley (1877)

Along with the large steel sign/sheet halfway down the ginnel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When she was a girl she went to the local primary school (the one my son goes to now), and got there via the ginnel ❋ Clare Sudders (2009)

A man in his 50s was walking towards the supermarket through a ginnel between Burras Road and the car park when he was approached by two men who asked for a ci

In recent months, they have reduced the ginnel clean-ups and started handing out fines.

It was too [dark] to [walk up] the ginnel. ❋ Mikeyjuk (2006)

Im gonna [go down't] ginnel, to't [chippy]. Im off on ma sen, does thee want some, or [should i get] once? ❋ Laurenleeds (2009)

"Our cat [ran up] their ginnel" (A phrase used to indicate a very [tenuous] [familial] relationship between two people. ❋ Chris Sheffield (2008)

on the phone "just walking down the ginnel to your house, had to ring [incase] some [chavs] [beat me] up". ❋ Jeds (2011)

[go down] t'ginnel [lads] ❋ JimmyK (2003)

there was so [much love] in the ginnel ❋ Love4theginnel (2009)

[Tom]: where [you going] Mike: down the [ginnel] mate ❋ Busysmithy (2020)

"Why [are you] being so Ginnel?" "[That person] is so Ginnel..." ❋ Abu Churchill (2020)

person 1: she's so [quiet] person 2: [lol no].....thats ginnelle [get to know] her first ❋ I Know A Ginnelle (2021)