dinkey
Americannoun
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Origin of dinkey
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Vice President by acclamation, An American credit to our nation�hinkey dinkey parley-vous!
From Time Magazine Archive
The first long-drawn exhaust of the dinkey engine moving the slag kettle out to its spilling place ripped the silence.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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
Anyone who wanted that dinkey pewter mug could have it, as far as he cared.
From The Crimson Sweater by Barbour, Ralph Henry
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