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dinky
[ ding-kee ]
adjective
dinkier, dinkiest.
- Informal. small, unimportant, unimpressive, or shabby:
We stayed in a dinky old hotel.
- British Informal. fashionable; well dressed; smart.
noun
plural dinkies.
dinky
/ ˈɪŋɪ /
adjective
- small and neat; dainty
- inconsequential; insignificant
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dinky1
C18 (in the sense: dainty): from dink
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It’s dinky and depressing and it doesn’t do a thing to make the world a better place.
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The fruits of that success are a newly discovered asteroid—an even dinkier Dinky, as it were—and a host of puzzles to solve.
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It turns out that the asteroid Dinkinesh has a dinky sidekick — a mini moon.
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He threw so many dinky passes last season what’s the point of having a big arm?
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Kitty Flanagan cocreated and stars in this Australian comedy about a lawyer whose life collapses, so she finds herself working in a dinky suburban law firm.
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