different between dingy vs dinge

English

Etymology 1

From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from an unrecorded Middle English *dingy, *düngy, from Old English *dyncgi? (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of Old English duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?n.d?i/

Adjective

dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)

1. drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
   • 1854, Charles Dickens, Household Words

     He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shaded lamp. In this safe there were piles of dingy papers and more dingy ledgers ; with great piles of accounts on hooks in the wall

Synonyms

• (drab): dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grimy

Antonyms

• (drab): bright, clean

Derived terms

• dingily
• dinginess

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

dingy (plural dingies)

1. Alternative form of dinghy

References

• dingy at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dingy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• dying

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?

Etymology 1

From dingy.

Noun

dinge (plural dinges)

1. Dinginess.
2. (US slang, dated) A black person.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010 p. 3:

     ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York 2007, p. 46:

     ‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.

Derived terms

• dinge queen

Etymology 2

From Middle English dengen, from Old English den?an, den??an, from Proto-Germanic *dangijan? (“to beat, hit”).

Verb

dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)

1. to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
2. to flog, as in penance

Derived terms

• dinged-up

Anagrams

• Edgin, deign, digne, gnide, nidge

Afrikaans

Noun

dinge

1. plural of ding

Dutch

Verb

dinge

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of dingen

Irish

Noun

dinge f

1. genitive singular of ding (“wedge; thickset person”)

Noun

dinge f

1. genitive singular of ding (“dint”)

Mutation