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adjective
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Informal. small, unimportant, unimpressive, or shabby: We stayed in a dinky old hotel.
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British Informal. fashionable; well dressed; smart.
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Origin:
1780–90; compare Scots dink neatly dressed, trim (of obscure origin); sense shift perhaps: trim > dainty > small > insignificant; see -y1
1780–90; compare Scots dink neatly dressed, trim (of obscure origin); sense shift perhaps: trim > dainty > small > insignificant; see -y1
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Word Origin & History
dinky
1788 "neat, trim, dainty, small," from Scot. dialect dink "finely dressed, trim" (1508), of unknown origin. Modern sense is 1850s.
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dinky definition[ˈdɪŋki]
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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