Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Old-fashioned; worn-out.
- adj. Insignificant; unimportant.
- adj. Of cheap or poor quality; makeshift.
- n. One that is regarded as old-fashioned, worn-out, insignificant, or cheap in quality.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If Google just got contacts sharing right, sooooo many little rinky-dink Exchange wannabees would go out of business.”
Google Contacts Open To Non-Gmail Users | Lifehacker Australia
“At 60, however, having reached a nadir — he loses his job teaching fifth-grade history at a second-rate school and moves from his substantial place to a “rinky-dink starter apartment” — he gets a do-over.”
“Imagine a zombie-style outbreak film told within the confines of a rinky-dink radio station, as residents of Pontypool call in with the terrifying news of their neighbors and loved ones turning into rabid, murderous creatures.”
“It starts off with two FBI agents, played by Bill Pullman and Julia Ormand, driving to a rinky-dink town in the middle of nowhere to investigate a mass murder that includes the death of one of the local police officers, played by French Stewart.”
“Japan "is not some Third World country with rinky-dink technology," said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo.”
USA Today: Poll: Fears of nuclear disaster in U.S. rise after Japan quake
“Now will you admit that your claim that all new mass transit projects are rinky-dink and are “dwarfed” by increases in car travel are flat-out wrong?”
“Last week, tricked by a crew from "The Daily Show" into believing that a group of visitors was from the Finnish philanthropic group the Daughters of Helsinki, Glenn Beck admitted that he adores Bill Moyers and thinks that "All Things Considered" makes his own show sound like "some rinky-dink college radio station from Paducah.”
“The cities you mention have built a few dozen miles of rinky-dink light-rail lines that cover just a minuscule fraction of their urban areas and provide only a minuscule fraction of transportation each city, comparable to a busy bus route.”
“The rinky-dink light rail lines that have been built in various American cities over the past 30 years or so are far too limited have a significant effect on development.”
“I have this rinky-dink car that does not do well in this," Grove said.”
The Huffington Post: Winter Weather: Deadly Snowstorm Closes Major Roadways In Plains, Southwest
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rinky-dink’.
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EN - compound adjectives
Adjectively used nominal phrases with a "-" inside.
t-test, O-ring, B-grade, so-called, on-site, at-large, in-your-face, in-state, on-time, up-to-the-minute, in-store, on-call and 965 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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words i enjoy
wiggly-waggley, higgledy-piggledy, artsy-fartsy, clip-clop, fancy-shmancy, handy-andy, hanky-panky, heebie-jeebies, hoity-toity, hoochy koochy, hurdy-gurdy, bee's knees and 10 more...
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Inky
One of those nutso navel-fluff ruzuzu lists.
Inky, stinky, kinky, pinky, dinky, minky, tiddly-winky, slinky, clinky, ratfinky, kitchen-sinky, Hinky Dinky and 59 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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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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R is for Red Clown
My R Words
rabble-rouser, rabblerouser, red clown, rabblerousing, ragamuffin, rama lama ding dong, rapscallion, rascal, ratfink, red herring, red rover, renegade and 39 more...
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Beyond Fair To Middling
words or expressions which, when used with and in the sense of "it's _____" or "it's a _____" mean simply good. Or better :-)
balltearer, beauty, ripper, all good, going swimmingly, snorter, ripsnorter, cracker, belter, corker, jaffa, nifty and 44 more...
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