dinge
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From dingy.
Noun edit
dinge (countable and uncountable, plural dinges)
- Dinginess.
- (US slang, dated, countable) A black person.
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:
- ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
- 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 46:
- ‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).
Verb edit
dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)
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dinge
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dinge
Irish edit
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dinge f
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dinge f
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
dinge | dhinge | ndinge |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |