Crossword clues for dingus
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"any unspecified or unspecifiable object; something one does not know the name of or does not wish to name," 1876, U.S. slang, from Dutch dinges, literally "thing" (see thing).
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig. 2 A fool or incompetent person. 3 (context slang vulgar English) penis
Wikipedia
Dingus can mean:
- Dingus, Kentucky, an unincorporated location
- nickname of Paul Magee (born 1948), a former member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army or IRA
- Lowell Dingus, an author and research associate - see List of authors of names published under the ICZN
- Keith "Dingus" Leingang, a cast member in Ghost Mine (TV series)
- Dirty Dingus Magee, a 1970 Western film starring Frank Sinatra in the title role
- Dingus Technology Building, on the Ohio University Southern Campus in Ironton, Ohio
Usage examples of "dingus".
That’s why he’d waited so long before setting to work on this dingus anyway, figuring in the time it would have took him to of clumb up to the top of them stairs .
It was possible to see that he wore a garment almost like a lightweight spacesuit, black and skintight, with a sealing metallic neck-ring and two odd little dinguses that might have been electrodes nestling in the hollows on either side of his throat.
So he sat there, knowing he could bash the dinguses out of the way if they bothered him.
She explained that the color was rose beige and that the dinguses on the side were something or other, winding up: "And you really think I look good in it?
They're supposed to be electrically operated, but there's a chain block-and-tackle type dingus to use if the power's off.
And he knows what they are seeing: a man with his pants mostly pulled down so his boxer shorts show (for all he knows his dingus could be hanging out of the fly front, and wouldn’.
And he knows what they are seeing: a man with his pants mostly pulled down so his boxer shorts show (for all he knows his dingus could be hanging out of the fly front, and wouldn't that just be the final magi.
Not a dingus that you shovel sand into and out comes bouquets of flowers or ice-cream cones or decks of playing cards or whatever you may ask, but efficient machines, terribly efficient.