Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The peal of a bell.
- n. Slang An empty-headed person; a fool.
- v. To ring; jingle.
- adj. Characterized by a hammering exchange, as of blows: a ding-dong fight.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Reptile leaned forward and hit the button three times, fast -- _ding-dong ding-dong ding-dong.”
“Go and have a look, and please comment -- Frank has called for non-US readers to comment as most of the ding-dong is from within the US.”
“What commenced is what history will record as Barack Obama's Big Jobs pitch, a rousing ding-dong wood shedding -- this president's finest in more than a calendar year and by far the most passionate a mostly dispassionate leader has given since taking office.”
The Huffington Post: James Campion: The Joe Cool Double-Reverse Hail Mary
“If I insist then on adding how she made bizarre whooping noises and whenever the doors to the subway closed with the accompanying ding-dong sound, Emma cheerfully sang out, "Gank - You!" replicating the exact tone of the warning sound, one is left with a very different sense of who she is.”
The Huffington Post: Ariane Zurcher: A Balanced View on Autism
“He was widely criticized for the comment.8.39pm: Now there's a ding-dong battle going on about Newt Gingrich's huge fees from Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored housing mortgage agency.”
The Guardian: CNN Florida Republican debate – as it happened
“Another night, I had just got into bed hoping for an early night when the familiar ding-dong of the public address system disturbed the peace of my room.”
The Guardian: No freedom for foreign press at Tripoli's Rixos hotel
“Wildly Speculative Season 5 Prediction: Hopefully, ding-dong, this witch is dead.”
“At the very least, it would provide a courtroom ding-dong that would expose Hitler either as an unreformed thug to his big-money, bourgeois backers or as a turncoat wuss to the millions of Brown Shirt maniacs who were out spreading mayhem and fear in his name.”
“What is the cost to the U.S. taxpayers to bring these guys to Washington so ding-dong in chief can hang a goofy medal around their necks, or pin them on their jackets, or whatever one does with them?”
“You see, my ding-dong fell off about 7 years and 6 months ago.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ding-dong’.
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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funny & derogatory
WARNING: VERY EXPLICIT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
funny derogatory names, quotes, phrases.
( open list, randomness, ad hom, ad hominem )
also see:
buttfucking quitter, dirty sanchez, donkey punch, falcon punch, assbadger, unicorn turd, assclown, fudgenut, quackery, friggin homo, buttmuncher, jackwagon and 274 more... -
Only the Vowels are Different
hip-hop, fiddle-faddle, mishmash, flip-flop, chit-chat, riffraff, knick-knack, ping-pong, zigzag, sing-song, criss-cross, seesaw and 14 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Double Trouble
Reduplicatives and more.
splish-splash, hip-hop, kit-kat, dingaling, hugger-mugger, even-steven, tit for tat, higgledy-piggledy, dilly-dally, boogie-woogie, knick-knack, mai tai and 131 more...
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amusing insults
Words that you can use to insult people. The best was when I called my (then) bf a crumb bum (I was kidding!) and he was genuinely insulted! How the hell anyone could take that seriously, I do not ...
twitterpated, insipid, prat, twit, brat, twerp, flibbertigibbet, milquetoast, lollygagger, slubberdegullion, curmudgeon, clodhopper and 63 more...
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Nick nacks
I started a list on the Wordie with a different log-in and now I can't find it. Sigh. So I'm starting again. These are monosyllabic double barrels that I like the sound of. Part of our human instin...
riff-raff, ping-pong, hip-hop, flim-flam, op cit, tip-top, mish-mash, flap-dash, nick-nack, lap-top, can-can, slap-dash and 60 more...
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