dinge

• IPA^(key): /dɪnd͡ʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɪndʒ

From dingy.

dinge (countable and uncountable, plural dinges)

1. (uncountable) Dinginess.
   • 1988, Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye:

     The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light. Jon wouldn’t feel like an artist without a certain amount of dinge around.

2. (US slang, dated, countable) A black person.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:

     ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’

   • 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 46:

     ‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.

• dinge queen

From Middle English *dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).

dinge (third-person singular simple present dinges, present participle dingeing, simple past and past participle dinged)

1. to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in
2. to flog, as in penance

• dinged-up

• nidge, gnide, negid, deign, Edgin, digne, Niğde, Dieng

dinge

1. plural of ding

dinge

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of dingen

dinge f

1. genitive singular of ding (“wedge; thickset person”)

dinge f

1. genitive singular of ding (“dint”)