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Definition of Dinged
1. ding [v] - See also: ding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinged
Literary usage of Dinged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1895)
"But dinged — excuse the expression, for it 's the strongest I use — I say, ...
dinged if he didn't go there, but he left his paper as dead as a padlock. ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"In the Southern States a man will say that he worked dinged hard. ... In the
South it takes the form of " dinged." They are all euphemisms for "damned. ..."
3. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"10. ding; *dung; *dung now commonly dinged; dinged. In Anglo- saxon the weak verb
... The \\eak dinged is already old Sec D. Lindsay ed. Chalmers 3. p. 319. ..."
4. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"A bat of wood that may be thrown (dinged); a piece of money; ... You know it's
a dinged long ride from Pineville, and it took me most two days to get there. ..."
5. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"dinged, reiterated. " He dinged it into my ears from morning to night." Dinky, adj.
tiny. ..."
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