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[din-jee]

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adjective, -gi·er, -gi·est.

of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.

shabby; dismal.

Origin:
1730–40; origin uncertain

Related forms

din·gi·ly, adverb

din·gi·ness, noun

Can be confused: dinghy, dingy.

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The entrance sits low and dingy below the sidewalk, next to some stained traffic cones.

Whatever you do, don't use that dingy recycled re-recycled tree-friendly paper.

Though formally homeless, few of those who lack settled abodes sleep on the streets, nor do many live in dingy hotels or hostels.

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The entrance sits low and dingy below the sidewalk, next to some stained traffic cones.

Whatever you do, don't use that dingy recycled re-recycled tree-friendly paper.

Though formally homeless, few of those who lack settled abodes sleep on the streets, nor do many live in dingy hotels or hostels.

Yet the overall impression was one of dingy neglect and piecemeal repair.

White would be too jarring and would look dingy over time, whereas the chartruese will continue to look fresh.

Fortunately, the dingy will float even if it is partially inflated.

He wore plastic flip-flops, dingy scrubs and a black fedora.

Dingy cast iron sinks and tubs sparkle with a nice slightly diluted bleach bath.

Some basic foods are available in dingy peso shops and through ration books.

Our adventuring heroine wakes up in a dimly lit cave, suspended upside-down and wrapped in a cocoon of dingy white cloth.

Her two rooms are dingy but neat, the walls adorned with cheap icons of her favourite saints.

Kirk arrived the next morning at a dingy white house next to an automotive-parts dealer.

It looks unwelcoming, they say, dark and a little dingy.

Perhaps it's best to think of the book as sunlight through a dingy window.

Here's a great way to roam the world right from your dingy little veal-fattening pen.

It points down a trash-strewn alley toward a dingy three-story walk-up across from an incense kiosk.

Three of these dingy gray hulks sprawl about a thousand feet long with walls of reinforced concrete up to eight feet thick.

Although the scenery is much cleaner and brighter than the dingy milieu suggested in.

Similarly dingy types hop on the stopping trains to hawk beverages out of a jute sack.

The clean, antiseptic offices and open-air malls give way to dingy alleys and clammy subway.

The new one comes with a pay cut, scant carpeting, dingy lighting and a room without a view.

We sat on one of the lounge's dingy couches, and he placed a thick folder of papers on his lap.

Its dingy silver teeth were glinting in the moonlight.

Erickson combs hardware stores and the dingy warehouses once used by stove manufacturers.

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dingy (ˈdɪndʒɪ)

—*adj* , -gier, -giest
1.	lacking light or brightness; drab
2.	dirty; discoloured

[C18: perhaps from an earlier dialect word related to Old English dynge dung]

'dingily

—*adv*

'dinginess

—n

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Word Origin & History

dingy

1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but probably related to dung.

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dingy definition

[ˈdɪŋi]

mod.
loony; giddy. : That friend of yours sure does act dingy sometimes.
Go to dingus. :

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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