Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small locomotive used in a railroad yard, as for shunting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small locomotive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Allensworth enjoyed the special privilege of obtaining the use of the "dinkey" to go ashore whenever he desired.
Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914
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In the nature of things the tea-drinking in the stuffy "dinkey" drawing-room was not prolonged.
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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While Adams was dispensing commissary tea in iron-stone china cups to his two guests in the "dinkey" field office, his chief, taking the
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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A string of use-worn bunk cars; a "dinkey" caboose serving as the home on wheels of the chief of construction and his assistant; a crooked siding with
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
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Him an 'Beetles was tradin' partners an 'they ran the first dinkey little steamboat up the Koyokuk.
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If you want to suck dinkey dick because sucking donkey dick gets your rocks off then that is your sexual taste.
Briain Paddick makes joke about dead MP's sexual tastes 2008
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What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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He found out the girl's folks were not very rich, and then he set about raising the high dinkey-dink with everything.
Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905
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Get into your white flannels and pretty blue coat and put on your dinkey rah-rah, and follow me.
The Common Law 1899
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Below lay the chaotic construction camp buried in silence and in darkness save for the lighted windows of the dinkey.
A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893
qms commented on the word dinkey
As humpback compares to a minke
Or fist to a fluttering pinky
Do engines for trains
That roar ’cross the plains
Compare to the stuttering dinkey.
November 4, 2018