Dinge
/dɪnd͡ʒ/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Dinginess. uncountable
"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 discoloration due to dirtiness wordnet
- 3 A black person. US, countable, dated, slang
"‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’"
Verb
- 1 to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
- 2 make dingy wordnet
- 3 to flog, as in penance
- 4 make a dent or impression in wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"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."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From dingy.
Etymology 2
From Middle English *dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).