ding dong
English edit
Etymology edit
See ding-dong
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
- (onomatopoeia, colloquial, often childish) The sound made by a doorbell.
- Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well! / Who put her in? Little Johnny Thin. / Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. (Traditional English nursery rhyme)
- (colloquial) A general exclamation of surprise or approval.
- — Here's a photo of my new girlfriend. — Ding dong!
- 1959, Norman Hudis, 0:44:35 from the start, in Carry On Nurse (motion picture), spoken by Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips), Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, →OCLC, retrieved 2017-11-10:
- Ding dong, you're not wrong.
Translations edit
onomatopoeia for the sound of a doorbell
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Noun edit
ding dong (plural ding dongs)
- (colloquial, derogatory) Alternative form of ding-dong; an idiot.
- My girlfriend's math teacher is a ding dong.
- (colloquial, often humorous, euphemistic) Alternative form of ding-dong; a penis.