dingen.¹

Brit.

/dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S.

/dɪndʒ/

Forms: 1600s dindge, 1700s– dinge.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dinge v.¹

Etymology: < dinge v.¹ Compare ding n.¹ 2a.

Now chiefly regional.

A depression, hollow, or indentation in a surface, typically one caused by a blow or collision; a dent. Also occasionally: a blemish or bruise on the skin of a fruit. Also figurative. Cf. dinge v.¹, ding n.¹ 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface

hollowc897

printa1387

impression1398

puncha1430

dent1565

dint1590

dinge1611

doke1615

impressurea1616

depressure1626

depression1665

dawk1678

swage1680

indent1690

sinking1712

dunkle1788

indenture1793

delve1811

subsidation1838

indention1839

recess1839

indentation1847

incavation1852

deepening1859

sink1875

malleation1881

ding1922

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bosselure, a bruise, dindge, or dint, in a peece of plate, or mettall.

1773 T. Hatton Introd. Clock & Watch Work i. 19 He has kept his plates remarkably thin, and without hollows and dinges.

1836 Belmont (Wisconsin Territory) Gaz. 28 Dec. She [sc. a mare] has a small dinge or scar on the left side of the neck, produced when a colt, by a kick.

1862 C. E. L. Riddell World in Church (1865) xvii. 189 In my keeping your pride shall not even get a dinge.

1894 Times 27 Oct. 8/1 The paint only is scratched, and there is not a dent or dinge anywhere else.

1931 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) 13 Jan. 3/7 The right front fender of the Mitzel car had a dinge in it, about nine inches long and five inches wide.

1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's (2000) 208 The bed, with a dinge in the red duvet where her husband had obviously sat for a time, watched her.

2019 @kbear58 4 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2020) Wasn't allowed to use dialect words like toatie (small) dinge (bruise on apple) etc like my grannie used. Mum had lived in England.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dingen.²adj.

Brit.

/dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S.

/dɪndʒ/

Forms: 1800s– dinge, 1900s– dinghe (rare).

Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: dingy adj.¹

Etymology: Back-formation < dingy adj.¹ Compare earlier dinge v.² Compare also earlier dinginess n.

A. n.²

†1. U.S. Criminals' slang. A dark night. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1807 Narr. Life H. Tufts iii. iv. 316 Dinge, a dark night.

2. The quality or condition of being dingy; disagreeable lack of brightness or freshness of colour or hue; = dinginess n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > dullness

dinginess1758

dinge1846

sombreness1847

drabbiness1872

drabness1878

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > dinginess or discolouration

discolouration1545

tarnish1713

dinginess1758

miscoloration1822

discolorization1827

dinge1846

1846 E. D. Bancroft Let. 2 Nov. in Lett. from Eng. (1904) 12 I cannot get accustomed to the London dinge.

1860 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers (1863) 117 The dinge and wrinkles of their wretched old cotton stockings.

a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xvi. 182 The dust and dinge of the cluttered house.

2003 New Yorker 22 Dec. 112/1 When he tried to look out, the trees seemed to be pasted onto the waxy dinge of a still wintry sky.

3. slang (offensive and derogatory). Cf. sense B.

a. U.S. A black person; (sometimes) spec. a black musician. Cf. dingy n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun]

AfriceOE

MoorOE

EthiopOE

blomana1225

Ethiopiana1325

blue mana1387

Moriana1387

black mana1398

blackamoor1525

black Morian1526

black boy1530

molen1538

Nigro1548

Nigrite1554

Negro1555

neger1568

nigger1577

blackfellow1598

Kaffir1607

black1614

thick-lipsa1616

Hubsheea1627

black African1633

blackface1704

sambo1704

Cuffee1713

Nigritian1738

fellow1753

Cuff1755

blacky1759

mungo1768

Quashie1774

darkie?1775

snowball1785

blue skin1788

Moriscan1794

sooterkin1821

nigc1832

tar-brush1835–40

Jim Crow1838

sooty1838

mokec1847

dinge1848

monkey1849

Siddi1849

dark1853

nigre1853

Negroid1860

kink1865

Sam1867

Rastus1882

schvartze1886

race man1896

possum1900

shine1908

jigaboo1909

smoke1913

golliwog1916

jazzbo1918

boogie1923

jig1924

melanoderm1924

spade1928

jit1931

Zulu1931

eight ball1932

Afro1942

nigra1944

spook1945

munt1948

Tom1956

boot1957

soul brother1957

nig-nog1959

member1962

pork chop1963

splib1964

blood1965

non-voter1966

moolinyan1967

Oreo1968

boogaloo1972

pongo1972

moolie1988

1848 Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/1 Dinge, a negro man.

1933 E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 43 That big dinge took him by surprise..the big black bastard.

1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely i. 9 ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out.’

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §576/2 Dinge,..a negro musician.

a2002 ‘F. X. Toole’ Pound for Pound (2006) xiv. 130 Bust up that fuckin dinge for me.

b. Jazz. A type of rapid or exaggerated vibrato associated with or considered characteristic of the playing of black musicians.

ΚΠ

1935 Swing Music Apr. 48/1 The main characteristics of Chicago phrasing are short simple phrases.., negro ‘hot tone’ and an intriguing habit of sustaining a note with excessive vibrato (‘croaky tone’, ‘dinge’).

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/1 Dinge, ‘Negro vibrato’ played with a very rapid, violent shake.

1984 Storyville Dec. 63/1 Sandy plays two solos..with the typical ‘dinge’ in his tone.

B. adj.

U.S. slang. (offensive and derogatory). Designating a black person; of, relating to, frequented by, or associated with black people. Cf. sense A. 3, dingy adj.¹ 2b.Frequently in jazz contexts, esp. in the early 20th cent.With quot. 1958, cf. sense A. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective]

blackOE

Morian1504

African1548

Negro1593

black Morian1631

neger1657

Ethiopian1684

nigger1689

Hubshee1698

Kaffir1731

Nigritian1757

Ethiopic1778

dingy1785

blackamoor1813

nigger-looking1837

darkie1840

Negroid1844

Negroloid1844

dinge1848

Melanian1861

negroish1861

Negroidal1878

Africanoid1885

chocolate?1886

melanodermic1924

nigra1938

tan1950

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to

Moresco?1551

blacka1652

Negro1653

negroish1746

niggerish1825

darkie1839

dinge1848

niggery1855

Negrotic1863

negritic1870

Nigritic1889

melanoderm1926

soul1960

Nubian1971

1848 Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/1 Covess dinge, a negress, sometimes called dinge blowen... Dinge kinch, a negro child.

1918 Geyer's Stationer 28 Mar. 13/2 The ‘Eureka’ quartette rendered the night air melodious with a lotta ‘Jazz’ stuff. Say, they are some colored quartette... The Dinge quartette fellows..harmonized very well.

1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely i. 10 ‘You say this here is a dinge joint?’.. ‘I told you it's a coloured joint.’

1958 V. Bellerby in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xvii. 205 The ‘dinge’ piano trill, deriving from the efforts of the early Negro instrumentalists to sing through their instruments, instinctively holding the rich overtones of Negro speech.

1969 A. Hunter Gently Coloured i. 8 A dinge bit. It has to be.

1993 M. F. Manalansan in E. S. Nelson Crit. Ess.: Gay & Lesbian Writers of Color 69 To designate a bar as a rice bar, as with dinge bars for Black gay men or cha-cha bars for Latinos, obliterate [sic] the corporeality of Asian men.

Compounds

dinge queen n. U.S. slang (offensive and derogatory) (originally and chiefly among gay men) a gay man (typically one who is white) who is predominantly attracted to black men.

ΚΠ

1964 Lavender Lexicon Dinge queen, a white homosexual who prefers, as a sex partner, a negro.

2020 @thetwerkinggirl 30 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 Aug. 2020) White gay friends being called ‘Dinge Queen’ or ‘Dirt Queen’ for dating Black/POC? It's a no from me!!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dingev.¹

Brit.

/dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S.

/dɪndʒ/

Forms: 1600s dindge, 1800s– dinge.

Origin: Probably a word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English dengan to strike, beat (see note), cognate with Old Icelandic dengja to hammer (see ding v.¹).Old English dengan is attested once securely in the sense ‘to strike, beat (in the context of corporal punishment)’ (other possible evidence for the verb in Old English is problematic and disputed). As a weak Class I verb, it is presumed to show palatalization and assibilation of the original stem-final velar plosive. Compare:OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) l. 271 Ælcum gemete þonne ne sceal arung beon þære gyltendan geogoðe, ac swiðor..ma sceal heora sidan, þæt hi ne heardian, mid gierdon gelomlice dencgan [L. uirgis assidue tundenda sunt]. For the assumed raising of the stem vowel to i compare the better attested pair sprenge v. and springe v.¹ and the phonological discussion at springe n. In early use this word is very difficult to distinguish from ding v.¹ (compare the forms listed at that entry), which is earlier and more common (although it is attested later in the semantically most closely related sense, ding v.¹ 6). For this reason, any ambiguous examples have been assigned to that entry.

Now chiefly regional.

transitive. To make one or more depressions, hollows, or indentations in (an object or its surface), especially by striking or pressing; to dent or damage in this way.In some contexts it is impossible to be sure whether the form dinged represents this word or ding v.¹ 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form as an indentation > make indentation(s) in

denta1398

indentc1595

dint1597

dinge1611

indenturec1770

dunkle1822

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bosseler, to dindge, or bruise, to make a dint in vessell of mettall, or in a peece of plate.

1862 A. Brinckman Rifle in Cashmere iii. 21 The bear got up and charged, sending A—— and his shikaree down a khud, smashing the stocks of his guns, and dingeing the barrels of my rifle in the fall.

1921 Internat. Clinics 31st Ser. 3 259 Any force which has been strong enough to dinge the skull causes a marked laceration of the soft tissues.

1997 W. Rollinson Dict. Cumbrian Dial. 45/1 Tha's dinged t'bucket.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

dingev.²

Brit.

/dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S.

/dɪndʒ/

Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: dingy adj.¹

Etymology: Back-formation < dingy adj.¹

In later use chiefly English regional.

transitive. To make (something) dingy or dirty; to darken or discolour, esp. with smoke, grime, etc. Cf. dinged adj.¹No certain evidence of recent use has been found; quot. 1995 may indicate the survival of the word in Lincolnshire.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > make dingy or discoloured

tarnish1598

dinge1693

tache17..

1693 S. Snowden Deo Ecclesiæ & Conscienti ergo 50 If a Man..conforms not to the Ceremonial part of Divine Worship, he dinges the Gold of the Temple, he is a Debtor to the Law, and he shall pay for it.

1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East I. xxix. 224 There is a vast profusion of brass and silver work within the church; but the eternal burning of the lamps has dinged both that, and even the walls on the inside, so that the whole has but a dirty appearance.

1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 614/1 A suit, originally of a sad brown, but which..has been dinged into a true professional sable.

1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) It dinges (or ? dingies) my hands sitting in the house.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 77/2 Dinge, to get dirty. ‘Doernt git yersen a' dinge; Ah'm tekkin' yer ter yer nan's atter, mind.’]

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1611

n.²adj.1807

v.¹1611

v.²1693

单词	dinge
释义	dingen.¹ Brit. /dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /dɪndʒ/ Forms: 1600s dindge, 1700s– dinge. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: dinge v.¹ Etymology: < dinge v.¹ Compare ding n.¹ 2a. Now chiefly regional. A depression, hollow, or indentation in a surface, typically one caused by a blow or collision; a dent. Also occasionally: a blemish or bruise on the skin of a fruit. Also figurative. Cf. dinge v.¹, ding n.¹ 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface hollowc897 printa1387 impression1398 puncha1430 dent1565 dint1590 dinge1611 doke1615 impressurea1616 depressure1626 depression1665 dawk1678 swage1680 indent1690 sinking1712 dunkle1788 indenture1793 delve1811 subsidation1838 indention1839 recess1839 indentation1847 incavation1852 deepening1859 sink1875 malleation1881 ding1922 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bosselure, a bruise, dindge, or dint, in a peece of plate, or mettall. 1773 T. Hatton Introd. Clock & Watch Work i. 19 He has kept his plates remarkably thin, and without hollows and dinges. 1836 Belmont (Wisconsin Territory) Gaz. 28 Dec. She [sc. a mare] has a small dinge or scar on the left side of the neck, produced when a colt, by a kick. 1862 C. E. L. Riddell World in Church (1865) xvii. 189 In my keeping your pride shall not even get a dinge. 1894 Times 27 Oct. 8/1 The paint only is scratched, and there is not a dent or dinge anywhere else. 1931 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) 13 Jan. 3/7 The right front fender of the Mitzel car had a dinge in it, about nine inches long and five inches wide. 1999 in D. Bolger Ladies' Night at Finbar's (2000) 208 The bed, with a dinge in the red duvet where her husband had obviously sat for a time, watched her. 2019 @kbear58 4 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2020) Wasn't allowed to use dialect words like toatie (small) dinge (bruise on apple) etc like my grannie used. Mum had lived in England. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dingen.²adj. Brit. /dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /dɪndʒ/ Forms: 1800s– dinge, 1900s– dinghe (rare). Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: dingy adj.¹ Etymology: Back-formation < dingy adj.¹ Compare earlier dinge v.² Compare also earlier dinginess n. A. n.² †1. U.S. Criminals' slang. A dark night. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1807 Narr. Life H. Tufts iii. iv. 316 Dinge, a dark night. 2. The quality or condition of being dingy; disagreeable lack of brightness or freshness of colour or hue; = dinginess n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [noun] > dullness dinginess1758 dinge1846 sombreness1847 drabbiness1872 drabness1878 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > dinginess or discolouration discolouration1545 tarnish1713 dinginess1758 miscoloration1822 discolorization1827 dinge1846 1846 E. D. Bancroft Let. 2 Nov. in Lett. from Eng. (1904) 12 I cannot get accustomed to the London dinge. 1860 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers (1863) 117 The dinge and wrinkles of their wretched old cotton stockings. a1967 J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself (1968) xvi. 182 The dust and dinge of the cluttered house. 2003 New Yorker 22 Dec. 112/1 When he tried to look out, the trees seemed to be pasted onto the waxy dinge of a still wintry sky. 3. slang (offensive and derogatory). Cf. sense B. a. U.S. A black person; (sometimes) spec. a black musician. Cf. dingy n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] AfriceOE MoorOE EthiopOE blomana1225 Ethiopiana1325 blue mana1387 Moriana1387 black mana1398 blackamoor1525 black Morian1526 black boy1530 molen1538 Nigro1548 Nigrite1554 Negro1555 neger1568 nigger1577 blackfellow1598 Kaffir1607 black1614 thick-lipsa1616 Hubsheea1627 black African1633 blackface1704 sambo1704 Cuffee1713 Nigritian1738 fellow1753 Cuff1755 blacky1759 mungo1768 Quashie1774 darkie?1775 snowball1785 blue skin1788 Moriscan1794 sooterkin1821 nigc1832 tar-brush1835–40 Jim Crow1838 sooty1838 mokec1847 dinge1848 monkey1849 Siddi1849 dark1853 nigre1853 Negroid1860 kink1865 Sam1867 Rastus1882 schvartze1886 race man1896 possum1900 shine1908 jigaboo1909 smoke1913 golliwog1916 jazzbo1918 boogie1923 jig1924 melanoderm1924 spade1928 jit1931 Zulu1931 eight ball1932 Afro1942 nigra1944 spook1945 munt1948 Tom1956 boot1957 soul brother1957 nig-nog1959 member1962 pork chop1963 splib1964 blood1965 non-voter1966 moolinyan1967 Oreo1968 boogaloo1972 pongo1972 moolie1988 1848 Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/1 Dinge, a negro man. 1933 E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 43 That big dinge took him by surprise..the big black bastard. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely i. 9 ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §576/2 Dinge,..a negro musician. a2002 ‘F. X. Toole’ Pound for Pound (2006) xiv. 130 Bust up that fuckin dinge for me. b. Jazz. A type of rapid or exaggerated vibrato associated with or considered characteristic of the playing of black musicians. ΚΠ 1935 Swing Music Apr. 48/1 The main characteristics of Chicago phrasing are short simple phrases.., negro ‘hot tone’ and an intriguing habit of sustaining a note with excessive vibrato (‘croaky tone’, ‘dinge’). 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §579/1 Dinge, ‘Negro vibrato’ played with a very rapid, violent shake. 1984 Storyville Dec. 63/1 Sandy plays two solos..with the typical ‘dinge’ in his tone. B. adj. U.S. slang. (offensive and derogatory). Designating a black person; of, relating to, frequented by, or associated with black people. Cf. sense A. 3, dingy adj.¹ 2b.Frequently in jazz contexts, esp. in the early 20th cent.With quot. 1958, cf. sense A. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] blackOE Morian1504 African1548 Negro1593 black Morian1631 neger1657 Ethiopian1684 nigger1689 Hubshee1698 Kaffir1731 Nigritian1757 Ethiopic1778 dingy1785 blackamoor1813 nigger-looking1837 darkie1840 Negroid1844 Negroloid1844 dinge1848 Melanian1861 negroish1861 Negroidal1878 Africanoid1885 chocolate?1886 melanodermic1924 nigra1938 tan1950 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] > relating to Moresco?1551 blacka1652 Negro1653 negroish1746 niggerish1825 darkie1839 dinge1848 niggery1855 Negrotic1863 negritic1870 Nigritic1889 melanoderm1926 soul1960 Nubian1971 1848 Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/1 Covess dinge, a negress, sometimes called dinge blowen... Dinge kinch, a negro child. 1918 Geyer's Stationer 28 Mar. 13/2 The ‘Eureka’ quartette rendered the night air melodious with a lotta ‘Jazz’ stuff. Say, they are some colored quartette... The Dinge quartette fellows..harmonized very well. 1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely i. 10 ‘You say this here is a dinge joint?’.. ‘I told you it's a coloured joint.’ 1958 V. Bellerby in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xvii. 205 The ‘dinge’ piano trill, deriving from the efforts of the early Negro instrumentalists to sing through their instruments, instinctively holding the rich overtones of Negro speech. 1969 A. Hunter Gently Coloured i. 8 A dinge bit. It has to be. 1993 M. F. Manalansan in E. S. Nelson Crit. Ess.: Gay & Lesbian Writers of Color 69 To designate a bar as a rice bar, as with dinge bars for Black gay men or cha-cha bars for Latinos, obliterate [sic] the corporeality of Asian men. Compounds dinge queen n. U.S. slang (offensive and derogatory) (originally and chiefly among gay men) a gay man (typically one who is white) who is predominantly attracted to black men. ΚΠ 1964 Lavender Lexicon Dinge queen, a white homosexual who prefers, as a sex partner, a negro. 2020 @thetwerkinggirl 30 May in twitter.com (accessed 26 Aug. 2020) White gay friends being called ‘Dinge Queen’ or ‘Dirt Queen’ for dating Black/POC? It's a no from me!! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dingev.¹ Brit. /dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /dɪndʒ/ Forms: 1600s dindge, 1800s– dinge. Origin: Probably a word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English dengan to strike, beat (see note), cognate with Old Icelandic dengja to hammer (see ding v.¹).Old English dengan is attested once securely in the sense ‘to strike, beat (in the context of corporal punishment)’ (other possible evidence for the verb in Old English is problematic and disputed). As a weak Class I verb, it is presumed to show palatalization and assibilation of the original stem-final velar plosive. Compare:OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz Regula Canonicorum (Corpus Cambr. 191) l. 271 Ælcum gemete þonne ne sceal arung beon þære gyltendan geogoðe, ac swiðor..ma sceal heora sidan, þæt hi ne heardian, mid gierdon gelomlice dencgan [L. uirgis assidue tundenda sunt]. For the assumed raising of the stem vowel to i compare the better attested pair sprenge v. and springe v.¹ and the phonological discussion at springe n. In early use this word is very difficult to distinguish from ding v.¹ (compare the forms listed at that entry), which is earlier and more common (although it is attested later in the semantically most closely related sense, ding v.¹ 6). For this reason, any ambiguous examples have been assigned to that entry. Now chiefly regional. transitive. To make one or more depressions, hollows, or indentations in (an object or its surface), especially by striking or pressing; to dent or damage in this way.In some contexts it is impossible to be sure whether the form dinged represents this word or ding v.¹ 6. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form as an indentation > make indentation(s) in denta1398 indentc1595 dint1597 dinge1611 indenturec1770 dunkle1822 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Bosseler, to dindge, or bruise, to make a dint in vessell of mettall, or in a peece of plate. 1862 A. Brinckman Rifle in Cashmere iii. 21 The bear got up and charged, sending A—— and his shikaree down a khud, smashing the stocks of his guns, and dingeing the barrels of my rifle in the fall. 1921 Internat. Clinics 31st Ser. 3 259 Any force which has been strong enough to dinge the skull causes a marked laceration of the soft tissues. 1997 W. Rollinson Dict. Cumbrian Dial. 45/1 Tha's dinged t'bucket. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dingev.² Brit. /dɪn(d)ʒ/, U.S. /dɪndʒ/ Origin: Formed within English, by back-formation. Etymon: dingy adj.¹ Etymology: Back-formation < dingy adj.¹ In later use chiefly English regional. transitive. To make (something) dingy or dirty; to darken or discolour, esp. with smoke, grime, etc. Cf. dinged adj.¹No certain evidence of recent use has been found; quot. 1995 may indicate the survival of the word in Lincolnshire. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > make dingy or discoloured tarnish1598 dinge1693 tache17.. 1693 S. Snowden Deo Ecclesiæ & Conscienti ergo 50 If a Man..conforms not to the Ceremonial part of Divine Worship, he dinges the Gold of the Temple, he is a Debtor to the Law, and he shall pay for it. 1753 ‘T. Broderick’ Lett. from Several Parts Europe & East I. xxix. 224 There is a vast profusion of brass and silver work within the church; but the eternal burning of the lamps has dinged both that, and even the walls on the inside, so that the whole has but a dirty appearance. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 614/1 A suit, originally of a sad brown, but which..has been dinged into a true professional sable. 1891 S. O. Addy Suppl. Gloss. Words Sheffield (at cited word) It dinges (or ? dingies) my hands sitting in the house. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 77/2 Dinge, to get dirty. ‘Doernt git yersen a' dinge; Ah'm tekkin' yer ter yer nan's atter, mind.’] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1611n.²adj.1807v.¹1611v.²1693
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dingen.1

dingen.2adj.

Compounds

dingev.1

dingev.2

dingen.¹

dingen.²adj.

dingev.¹

dingev.²