dinkey

American  

[ding-kee] / ˈdɪŋ ki /

Or dinky

noun

dinkeys plural

1. a small locomotive, especially with a switch engine.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dinkeys
  plural

Etymology

Origin of dinkey

1840–50; noun use of dinky; see -ey ²

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

dinkey dinkeys

Anyone who wanted that dinkey pewter mug could have it, as far as he cared.

From The Crimson Sweater by Barbour, Ralph Henry

What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?

From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward

Get into your white flannels and pretty blue coat and put on your dinkey rah-rah, and follow me.

From The Common Law by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

In the nature of things the tea-drinking in the stuffy "dinkey" drawing-room was not prolonged.

From A Fool for Love by Lynde, Francis

Reed lifted the silent, wondering, big-eyed girl from the dinkey train which pulled into Cartagena from Calamar ten days later, and took her to the Hotel Mariana, where his anxious, fretting wife awaited.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

Beats those little peanut whistles they've got on the little French dinkeys.

From The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 by United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

"I ain't the artist to move her gently enough with all that string o' dinkeys behind her," he said unhopefully.

From A Fool for Love by Lynde, Francis