Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The sound of a bell, or any similar sound of repeated strokes.
- n. A device in which two bells of different tone are struck alternately, used in striking the quarter-hours on a clock.
- To sound with the regularity of the ding-dong of a bell.
- To assail or pester with a continual succession of complaints, requests, taunts, gibes, or the like. See ding, transitive verb
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of ding-dong.
- n. An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
- n. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
- n. slang a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the noise made by a bell
- adv. heartily or earnestly
- v. go `ding dong', like a bell
Examples
“Natalie probably coundn't handle that her man's dingdong was showing through his pants.”
“Daley, on Jay Mariotti not joining the Tribune: "Rammalamma-dingdong.”
Greg Boose: Daley, Fresh Off His "Cuckoo" Hit, Tours Chicago With Other One Word Snaps
“Voight is running the entire country while the President is shown once and that is asking for a dingdong to eat.”
“It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.”
“I close all windows, but that dingdong sound passes”
“The security of my men and the stability of my prison was at stake, and now, I had to deal with this bleeding-heart, liberal, academic, effete dingdong who was concerned about the independent variable!”
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“So anyhow when I got back they were at it dingdong, John Wyse saying it was Bloom gave the ideas for Sinn Fein to Griffith to put in his paper all kinds of jerrymandering, packed juries and swindling the taxes off of the government and appointing consuls all over the world to walk about selling Irish industries.”
““But at its base, what I just said seems to contradict his misguided desire to railroad a dingdong.””
“What kind of dingdong kills two old ladies in an elevator for their jewelry and their purses?”
“You could rollerskate down Avenue A with your hair on fire and a sparkler duct-taped to your dingdong, and nobody would bother you.”
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Interesting words
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Reduples
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