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dinky
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I can't believe they charge $8.95 for this dinky salad! EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Forget Colonel Mustard with his dinky old lead pipe in the library. ▪ Hotchkis's dinky ad budget translates into low annual fees. ▪ It ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dinky is a 1935 American drama film directed by D. Ross Lederman .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
acr. Double income, no kids yet. Said of a relationship. a. 1 (context informal British English) tiny and cute; small and attractive. 2 (context informal US English) tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel" (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat" n. a small locomotive [syn: dinkey ] [also: dinkiest , dinkier ]
Usage examples of dinky.
Will you go to Ted and sai Dinky, and try to soothe her, should she ask to be soothed?
I could tie their paws up in dinky little velvet bags, I could cover the floors with washable polythene, I could always carry a gun.
There was this zine, dinky little rag that wanted to do a story on us.
The young woman became incapably drunk on the way home, so I pushed her inside her dinky little maisonette in Garlic Mews and tucked her up on a divan in the sitting-room to astonish her maid in the morning.
So, make sure your dinky new trannies work, and keep hold of the nice new binoculars MoD issued you, and - good luck.
Woolf, father of Sarah Woolf, owner of dinky Georgian house in Lyall Street, Belgravia, employer of blind and vindictive interior designers, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Gaine Parker.
Dinky Poore wrinkled his freckled nose and scroonched his eyes up into tiny slits so he could see better.
Luddites up in the snowbelt, who say they prefer their crawdads dinky.
When the speechmaking and the band music were all over we looked around for Dinky Poore.
If the Breakers picked it up, rebroadcasting it and amping what Dinky could only suggest to the level of a command?
If the Breakers picked it up, rebroadcasting it and amping what Dinky could only suggest to the level of a command?
Ican't fit much in that dinky thing, but I couldn't take the wash up to the big kettle at the house, because of washing the floor and spinning, When you do wash outside, you have to stay there, to tend the fire and stir it, so you can't do much else at the same time.
He, Dinky, Fred Worthington (the bankerly-looking man), and Dani Rostov had all been to New York, and were all able to summon up clear mental images of Times Square: the lights, the crowds, the movie marquees…and, most important, the giant news-ticker which broadcast the events of the day to the crowds below, making a complete circuit of Broadway and Forty-eighth Street every thirty seconds or so.
He, Dinky, Fred Worthington (the bankerly-looking man), and Dani Rostov had all been to New York, and were all able to summon up clear mental images of Times Square: the lights, the crowds, the movie marquees .
When Buzzy and Joe Turner had nosed up to the beach where Freddy and Dinky were sitting in the shade of a tree reading Henry's note, Kaiser Bill had dashed to the water's edge with his hair standing on end and bared his teeth.