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

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.

Esther, may I have a packet of seeds? and one of those dear dinkey little watering-cans?

From The Carroll Girls by Quiller-Couch, Mabel

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

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)

Below lay the chaotic construction camp buried in silence and in darkness save for the lighted windows of the dinkey.

From A Fool for Love by Lynde, Francis

"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

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