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

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

From A Fool for Love by Francis Lynde

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

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

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 Francis Lynde

But the door of the dinkey slammed behind the outgoing one, and the prophet of evil was left to organize his night assault on the shale-slide, and to command it as best he could.

From A Fool for Love by Francis Lynde

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 E. M. Ashe

"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 Francis Lynde

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