dinge
DinginessDinginess.
» The bell dinged, and the doors opened.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(uncountable)Dinginess.
(US, countable, dated, slang)A black person.
- discoloration due to dirtiness
Examples
4 sentencesThe bell dinged, and the doors opened.
The elevator bell dinged and the doors opened.
Tom opened his car door with a little too much force and accidentally dinged the car parked next to him.
deTom öffnete die Autotür etwas zu schwungvoll, so dass sie versehentlich gegen den Wagen, der neben seinem parkte, schlug. — Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR
Sami's phone dinged and it was a message from Layla.
Forms
plural: dingesSynonyms
1 synonyms- discoloration due to dirtiness:dinginess
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.