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Etymology

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dingbat +‎ -y

Adjective

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dingbatty (comparative more dingbatty, superlative most dingbatty)

  1. Like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.
    • 1999, Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl:
      Of course she would involve the police and the football coach and a battery of Mark's dingbatty friends.
    • 2001, John Fischer, Saint Ben with the Saint's and Angel's Song, page 142:
      Then they returned in such a giddy mood that I could have easily mistaken my mother for one of Becky's dingbatty friends.
    • 2011, Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control:
      Minnie's kind of dingbatty sometimes.