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dingy

[ din-jee ]

adjective

dingier, dingiest.
  1. of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
  2. shabby; dismal.


dingy

/ ˈ»åɪ²Ô»åÏôɪ /

adjective

  1. lacking light or brightness; drab
  2. dirty; discoloured
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ»å¾±²Ô²µ¾±±ô²â, adverb
  • ˈ»å¾±²Ô²µ¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å¾±²Ôg¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
  • »å¾±²Ôg¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dingy1

First recorded in 1730–40; origin uncertain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dingy1

C18: perhaps from an earlier dialect word related to Old English dynge dung
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In the end, she found a small door into a block of flats and says she was told to wait in a "dingy little hallway" for about half an hour.

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But the chilling truth of what they endured in a dingy ground floor flat remained a secret until the young girl's hysterical reaction on 21 March 2020.

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But there’s something dingy and gross, like mottled drifts of old snow, about the overweening influence of Trump’s courtiers and their grubbing relationship with a president so obviously enamored of money and flattery.

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They were described as being "so dingy and dark that, even in broad day, they had to be lighted up by artificial means".

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They and others without access to willing doctors perished at a horrifying rate from self-abortions or operations performed in “dark, dingy apartments,†the documentary reports,

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