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shingle noun1. ME.
[App. from Latin scindula, earlier scandula a split piece of wood, after Greek skhidax, skhindalmos.]
A thin rectangular tile, esp. of wood, used as a roofing material or for cladding walls etc. Also, such tiles collectively. ME.
a shingle short colloq. (chiefly Austral.) of low intelligence, not very bright, stupid.
Harper Lee Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda.
gen. A piece of board. ME.
A small signboard, esp. a signboard or nameplate of a lawyer, doctor, etc. N. Amer. M19.
hang out one's shingle, set up one's shingle begin to practise a profession.
Shingled hair; a shingled hairstyle. Also, the action or an act of shingling hair. E20.
C. Beaton With her hair snipped in a short shingle.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'consisting of, covered or built with, shingles', as shingle house, shingle roof, etc., 'used in making shingles', as shingle machine, shingle saw, etc. Special combs., as shingleback (lizard) a slow-moving heavily built Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, with scales resembling those of pine cones; shingle cap a cap-shaped hairnet for keeping a shingled hairstyle in place; shingle-nail a nail used in building to secure shingles; shingle-oak an oak of the US, Quercus imbricaria, used to make shingles.
shingly adjective1 covered with shingles or tiles M19.