dinkey
Americannoun
Etymology
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
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
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
What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
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
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