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dingdong
(encz) | dingdong, |
ding-dong
(gcide) | dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, n. [See Ding.]
1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic
body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter
hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or
contemptuous sense. [slang]
Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC] |
dingdong
(wn) | dingdong
adv 1: heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
v 1: go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: ding, dong,
dingdong] |
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ding-dong
(gcide) | dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, n. [See Ding.]
1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic
body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter
hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or
contemptuous sense. [slang]
Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC] |
Dingdong theory
(gcide) | Dingdong theory \Ding"dong` the"o*ry\ (Philol.)
The theory which maintains that the primitive elements of
language are reflex expressions induced by sensory
impressions; that is, as stated by Max M["u]ller, the
creative faculty gave to each general conception as it
thrilled for the first time through the brain a phonetic
expression; -- jocosely so called from the analogy of the
sound of a bell induced by the stroke of the clapper.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] Dingy
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