dinghy

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ.i/

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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋi
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡi

Etymology

From Hindi डिंगी (ḍiṅgī), diminutive of [script needed] (ḍiṅgā, “boat”).

Noun

dinghy (plural dinghies)

1. (nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

2. (nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.

Verb

dinghy (third-person singular simple present dinghies, present participle dinghying, simple past and past participle dinghied)

1. (intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

Noun

dinghy m (plural dinghys)

1. (nautical) dinghy