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語源 1

From dingy.

名詞

dinge (countable and uncountable, plural dinges)

1. (uncountable) Dinginess.
   • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

     The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light. Jon wouldn’t feel like an artist without a certain amount of dinge around.

2. (US slang, dated, countable) A black person.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:

     ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 46:

     ‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.

派生語

• dinge queen

語源 2

From 中期英語 dengen, from 古期英語 denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).

動詞

dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)

1. to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
2. to flog, as in penance

派生語

• dinged-up

アナグラム

• nidge, gnide, negid, deign, Edgin, digne, Niğde, Dieng