dinges

Alternative spelling of dingus (“thingamajig; fool”).

Noun

  1. Alternative spelling of dingus (“thingamajig; fool”).
    • The old-fashioned coon was a fine old cuss--he knew his place--but these young dinges don't want to be porters or cotton-pickers. - 1922, Sinclair Lewis, “10”, in Babbitt:

Origin

Borrowed from Dutch dinges, ding (“thing”).

Forms

dinges

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of dinge