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

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

What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?

From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

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

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

From The Carroll Girls by Mabel Quiller-Couch

I'm to teach a Bible class and pass out dinkey little reward-of-merit cards to the prize pupils!

From The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther

"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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