ding
Very minor damage caused by being struckVery minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
» It's because you're so dang hot.
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8 senses(informal)Very minor damage caused by being struck; a small dent or chip.
(colloquial)A rejection.
I just got my first ding letter.
The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell.
дзыньdzynʹ
дзеньdzenʹ, дзенькdzenʹk, дзіньdzinʹ
a ringing sound
(colloquial, especially)The act of levelling up.
An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid.
(Hong Kong)An indigenous inhabitant of the New Territories entitled to the building a village house under the Small House Policy.
(Australia, Western, ethnic, offensive, slur)An Italian person, specifically an Italian Australian
(uncountable)In American Chinese cuisine, cubed or bite-sized meat.
shrimp ding
chicken ding
Examples
32 sentencesIt's because you're so dang hot.
Tobias was playing ding-dong ditch.
Have you ever played ding-dong ditch?
Ziri couldn't see a dang thing out there.
Jonas plays ding-dong ditch with his friends.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), frFrom Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”).
Onomatopoeic. Compare ding-dong,
Romanized from Mandarin 鼎 (dǐng).
From Cantonese 丁 (ding¹).
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Forms
plural: dings / dingSynonyms
3 synonymsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular