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dingdong

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.

  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]

Wiktionary
dingdong

n. (alternative spelling of ding-dong English)

WordNet
dingdong
  1. adv. heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"

  2. v. go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: ding, dong]

Usage examples of "dingdong".

DingDong the Donkeyman was when Matt got her on the phone: Hiram Lindsay, who twenty-two years ago had owned the vet practice that his brother now operated and had gone out to the County Home for Innocents one blazing August to tend a sick donkey.

You looked for a coalminer, one of the older cars that were harder to clean afterward, instead of the stainless-steel dingdongs.

Remo asked Valerie, "that while those dingdongs were here, you kept your mouth shut long enough to hear anything they said?

Then next thing you knew they ripped their clothes off and all they had left was those boots and these little silky black baggie things that their dingdongs jiggled around in.