Fromdingy.
dinge (countable anduncountable,pluraldinges)
- (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 ofdinge around.
- (US slang, dated, countable) Ablack person.
1940,Raymond Chandler,Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published2010, page 3:‘Adinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
1970,John Glassco,Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published2007, page46:‘You made a hit with thedinge,’ Bob was saying.
FromMiddle English*dengen, fromOld Englishdenġan,denċġan, fromProto-West Germanic*dangijan, fromProto-Germanic*dangijaną(“to beat, hit”).
dinge (third-person singular simple presentdinges,present participledingeing,simple past and past participledinged)
- tostrike,scourge,beat;indent,bruise,knock in
- toflog, as in penance
dinge
- plural ofding
dinge
- (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctive ofdingen
dinge f
- genitivesingular ofding(“wedge; thickset person”)
dinge f
- genitivesingular ofding(“dint”)
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
