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Dinky   Listen
adjective
dinky  adj.  
1.
Small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel. (informal)
2.
Pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a dinky little hat. (British informal)






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"Dinky" Quotes from Famous Books



... far as I gets, for there's Vee, sittin' behind the silver tea-urn, all dolled up; and Leon, in his black coat, holdin' a plate of dinky little cakes; and a couple of strange ladies starin' at me button-eyed. I'd crashed right into the midst of ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... or so very much traveled to recall the day when the Pullman was called a palace ear and did its enterprising best to justify that title. It was almost an apotheosis of architectural bad taste. Disfigured by all manner of moldings, cornices, grilles and dinky plush curtains—head-bumping, dust-catching, useless—it was a decorative orgy, as well as one of the very foundations of the newspaper ...
— How To Write Special Feature Articles • Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

... think I was sleepin' in your dinky boat for, if I had the price of anythin'? It had a blanket in it an' was better than ...
— From the Car Behind • Eleanor M. Ingram

... riding over from Paulmouth in that dinky old stagecoach, too," went on the stranger, as though holding Sheila responsible for some measure of her discomfort. "Say, ain't the folks home?" She cast a sour look around the premises. "Gee! It's a lonesome place in ...
— Sheila of Big Wreck Cove - A Story of Cape Cod • James A. Cooper

... be a type—I'm a little doubtful at times now whether after all we didn't create it—for which Hatherleigh invented the nickname the "Pinky Dinkys," intending thereby both contempt and abhorrence in almost equal measure. The Pinky Dinky summarised all that we particularly did not want to be, and also, I now perceive, much of what we were and all that we ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells



Words linked to "Dinky" :   U.K., United Kingdom, small, little, Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, attractive, railway locomotive, locomotive engine, UK, engine, colloquialism, dinkey, Great Britain



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