Dingle-dousie is Scots for a stick or piece of peat lit at one end and waved quickly to make an arc of light, a children’s plaything something like a sparkler. The Scots National Dictionary also records a related sense, an active, bustling person...
The glow in the eyes of some animals is called eyeshine, and the adjective that describes such shimmering in a cat’s eyes is chatoyant, from French for “cat.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Eyeshine”...