dinkey
Americannoun
plural
dinkeysEtymology
Origin of dinkey
Example Sentences
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Vice President by acclamation, An American credit to our nation�hinkey dinkey parley-vous!
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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 Lynde, Francis
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
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