dinge
Americannoun
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the condition of being dingy.
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Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
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Etymology
Origin of dinge
First recorded in 1840–50; back formation from dingy
Example Sentences
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He is not a winter man; as a depressive, its dinge makes him torpid and morose.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2013
Jon wouldn’t feel like an artist without a certain amount of dinge around.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
There was neither dinge nor bend in them.
From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Ridgwell Cullum
He immediately answered that he had intended to say "Das waren schweinereien," but that he had suppressed this intention, in favor of the other, more gentle "Da sind dinge zum vorschein gekommen."
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Why, the houses are twice as tall as Lamb Court itself; and over them hangs a noble dinge, a venerable mouldy splendour.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
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