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dinky
[ ding-kee ]
adjective
- Informal. small, unimportant, unimpressive, or shabby:
We stayed in a dinky old hotel.
- British Informal. fashionable; well dressed; smart.
noun
dinky
/ ˈdɪŋkɪ /
adjective
- small and neat; dainty
- inconsequential; insignificant
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of dinky1
Example Sentences
So, I ordered a dinky little $26 cubicle heater that switches between 100 and 250 watts of draw.
It’s equipped with two rotating scrub pads that are more powerful than me and my dinky old mop could ever be.
Even if you’re using the dinky camera on your laptop, the right lighting setup will make you look a lot better.
You think that this tragedy has given you an opportunity to catapult you [sic] dinky blog and newspaper to new heights.
We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara.
I'm a good enough Yank to see if your dinky police is such an all-fired cute little bunch of wonder-workers as you say!
I guess its free cruising ground for anybody who can afford to own a steam yacht, or even a common little dinky motorboat.
What fun is it to walk down into that dinky little village keeping step like convicts?
But I figured out: there's camp-meetin's an' socials up there, an' a nice, dinky, white shirt once in a way goes pretty good.
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