dinge

See also: Dinge and dìng'é

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪndʒ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

Etymology 1

From dingy.

Noun

dinge (plural dinges)

  1. Dinginess.
  2. (US slang, dated) A black person.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010 p. 3:
      ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
    • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 46:
      ‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old English dengan, dencgan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).

Verb

dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)

  1. to strike, scourge, beat
  2. to flog, as in penance
Derived terms

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

dinge

  1. plural of ding

Dutch

Verb

dinge

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dingen

Irish

Noun

dinge f

  1. genitive singular of ding (“wedge; thickset person”)

Noun

dinge f

  1. genitive singular of ding (“dint”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dinge dhinge ndinge
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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