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

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Etymology

Origin of dinkey

1840–50; noun use of dinky; see -ey ²

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Example Sentences

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dinkey dinkeys

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

From The Crimson Sweater by Ralph Henry Barbour

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

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

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 Charles Francis Stocking

Wherefore he neither saw nor heard; and taking the short cut across the mouth of the lateral gulch back to camp, he boarded the dinkey and went to bed without disturbing Adams.

From A Fool for Love by Francis Lynde

"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

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