dinky

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Robbins concedes the pine flycatcher is "dinky," that its distinguishing features come down to a few feathers combined with a particular call.

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  1. adjective Informal Of small size or consequence; insignificant.
  2. adjective Informal Of poor quality; shabby.
  3. noun Variant of dinkey.

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  • And it was a real cohinkie-dinky to read your comment that Pogo was the only comic book you ever bought for yourself. —  Thrilling Wonder Stories April, 1953
  • “How'd you get into something so dinky, man Design Mode ,” says Del insistently. —  Asimov'sSF,January2008
  • "Here you go And this is gonna work just as good as your dinky computer thing?" —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 04 - April 2003
  • As an added bonus, the complete Atari 2600 game--dinky-pixel Harry and all--is buried within this version If you can grab it away from the kids, Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country is another cool dip into history. —  Omni: April 1995
  • "If cultural value, who you are, has no worth then 'dinky-di Aussies' can kiss themselves goodbye," he said.
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  1. Probably from Scots dink, neat, trim.

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  1. Also dinkey; a provincial word of imitative nature, in effect a variant of dicky, as applied to small things.
 

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