Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 - noun The sound of a bell, or any similar sound of repeated strokes.
- noun A device in which two bells of different tone are struck alternately, used in striking the quarter-hours on a clock.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
- noun (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
- noun slang a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
ding-dong . - noun An
attachment to aclock by which thequarter hours are struck uponbells of differenttones .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb heartily or earnestly
- verb go `ding dong', like a bell
- noun the noise made by a bell
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Examples
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Natalie probably coundn't handle that her man's dingdong was showing through his pants.
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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 2008
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Voight is running the entire country while the President is shown once and that is asking for a dingdong to eat.
DVD Review: ‘Transformers’ 2-Disc Special Edition (Blu-ray) 2008
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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.
Gerry Canavan 2007
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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.
Gerry Canavan 2007
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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!
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives 2002
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I close all windows, but that dingdong sound passes
Wind Chimes 2004
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I close all windows, but that dingdong sound passes
Wind Chimes 2004
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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.
Ulysses 2003
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“But at its base, what I just said seems to contradict his misguided desire to railroad a dingdong.”
KILLING COUSINS ALEX MINTER 2003
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