| 单词 | dinky |
| 释义 | dinky (once / 19932 pages) 1adjn 2adj Something that's dinky is very small or unimportant. A college freshmen might be shocked at how dinky her dorm room is. You might live in a dinky apartment or sit down to a child's tea party, sipping out of dinky, doll-sized tea cups. Dinky, meaning "tiny," is often used to complain about the smallness or insignificance of something: "All I get is this dinky slice of cake, after I helped you bake it?" Other meanings include a small metal model of a car and a little train car. It comes from the Scottish dink, "trim" or "neat." WORD FAMILYdinky: dinkier, dinkies, dinkiest, dinkys USAGE EXAMPLESThat would be so much grander than a dinky car. The Guardian(Nov 08, 2016) These were the dinkiest owls that Officer Delinko had.ever seen—only eight or nine inches tall. Carl Hiaasen, Hoot(2002) Venus was only a planet, he went on, and pretty dinky compared to real stars. Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle(2005) 1 1adj small and insignificant we stayed in a dinky old hotel Syn little, small limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent 2n a small locomotive 2Syn|Hyper dinkey engine, locomotive, locomotive engine, railway locomotive a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks adj (British informal) pretty and neat what a dinky little hat Syn attractive pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm |
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