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adjectivedinkiest, dinkier ˈdɪŋkiˈdɪŋki informal 1British (of an object or place) attractively small and neat. a dinky little restaurant Example sentencesExamples - As for refreshment of the liquid sort, walk down Belmont Street, just off Union Street, and you'll find yourself in dinky bar heaven.
- On the way back from Dorking, we stopped in a dinky little village called ‘Gomshall’, where we spotted a ‘new age’ type shop.
- Andy and Luke (the people I live with) are both well, and have been showing off their new toy - a digital video camera (it's really dinky and very cool).
- Or if, like me, you simply want to take a look at the day, you can easily lose yourself down the narrow, winding lanes, tiny coastal towns and dinky fishing ports.
- London, naturally, is leading the way in the burgeoning trend for nail bars offering manicures to little girls accompanying their mothers and dinky versions of grown-up perfumes and accessories.
- It's all so enticing - those galvanised planters, the dinky lamps to dangle from trees - that I'm revved up and excited and, by the time I reach the till, actually panting.
- To get away from the showbiz glitz, head down Palma's side streets and dinky squares for good shopping, eating and historic sights.
- The white-bread show was nearly cancelled at the end of its last season, having shed viewers like those pretty autumn leaves you see in the dinky town of Stars Hollow, where it's set.
- We had lunch in their dinky little restaurant, and figured that we were the youngest people there, by a margin of about forty years.
- The Music Clip digital music player maintains this trend - it's delightfully dinky, but has a less-than-petite price tag.
- Burlington Arcade has these ‘watchmen’ called beadles, and Princes Arcade runs between Piccadilly and Jermyn Street and has lots of teeny dinky little shops.
- You can delve into its dinky shops, which include several exclusive antiques stores, interiors shops, delicatessen and gift shops, and have lunch in a number of smart eateries or pubs.
- A poet and a parent, she has used the experience of the latter into a dinky collection of poems titled Baby, inspired by the birth of Comrie, her first child.
Synonyms small, little, petite, dainty, diminutive, mini, miniature, fun-size cute, neat, trim, dear, adorable Scottish wee informal teeny, teeny weeny, teensy-weensy, adorbs North American informal little-bitty 2North American Disappointingly small; insignificant. 〈北美，非正式〉小的；无关紧要的 I can't believe the dinky salaries they pay here 我不相信他们这里只付这点薪水。 Example sentencesExamples - This one's kinda dinky, but I'm not getting as much time to write as I'd thought.
- When I recently rammed the rear of a dinky Toyota on the Ventura Freeway, I bent it up pretty badly.
- I'd probably be stuck in Flordia, going to work every single day, and getting married at a dorky, dinky wedding down there.
- With so many speaker systems to choose from, there's little need to listen to a movie through the dinky hookup in your television.
- That's why Curtis has the least powerful computer at Merrill Lynch on his desk, along with a dinky monitor.
- I don't want dinky little reviews that tell me nothing.
- We drove over and found a somewhat dinky little dirt park adjoining a railroad track.
- The dark was broken only by a few dinky lampposts here and there along the stretch of bumpy road.
- Of course I mean more than a small dinky deposit, anyone with some geological training or even studying can figure out probable areas where there might be a deposit.
- Are we going to be living in some small, dinky shack with no running water and a cast iron cauldron for cooking?
- At best, the application could be called dinky; the interface is horrendous, and there is no user manual, or anything to really indicate what is going on.
- Indeed, almost three decades on, his gift for moving is so astonishing that he makes Longborough's dinky stage feel ten times the size it is.
- Finally, about half an hour later, Lauryn was dressed, fed, and in the dinky vehicle she liked to call a car, on her way to Chris's house.
- After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky.
- This isn't a dinky log jump we're talking about; it's big air with even bigger consequences, so you've got to be certain you can clear the gap before you launch.
- I gripped my dinky plastic fork we were supplied with by the mean cafeteria ladies in my hand; I was very tempted to just stab her.
- Our daughter lives with us, not some teacher and her husband in a dinky apartment!
- How in the world could a school with such a dinky gym ever help a league with big-time aspirations?
- ‘If I can do all this from a little dinky office with no funding,’ he exclaims, ‘imagine what the FBI could do!’
- It is fair to say the only Porsche I could have afforded would have been a dinky toy.
OriginLate 18th century: from Scots and northern English dialect dink 'neat, trim', of unknown origin. In Scottish and northern English dialect dink meant ‘neatly dressed, spruce, trim’. Its origins are unknown, and it remained restricted to northern Britain. But from the late 18th century its derivative dinky spread: throughout Britain it means ‘attractively small and neat’, in the USA ‘disappointingly small, insignificant’. In 1934 Dinky toys appeared, and these small but perfectly formed model cars are probably the first thing that come to many people's minds when they hear the word.
RhymesHelsinki, inky, Kinki, kinky, minke, pinkie, pinky, slinky, stinky, stotinki nounPlural dinkies ˈdɪŋkiˈdɪŋki informal A partner in a well-off working couple with no children. 〈非正式〉家境殷实双方都有工作而无子女的夫妻中的一方；丁克 Example sentencesExamples - They're dinkies, and she works on lots of temporary contracts so she gets to spend a lot of the winter up there.
- No kiddies, old man. Not yet, anyway. Just a couple dinkies, that's us.
- "They're dinkies," Doyle nodded across the aisle.
Origin1980s: acronym from double income, no kids, on the pattern of yuppy. noun ˈdɪŋki trademark as modifier Denoting a miniature motor vehicle of die-cast metal. Example sentencesExamples - Despite the fact that a Dinky toy car can fetch many times more than its real life counterpart, it is still possible to find bargains.
- I undid the paper and stuffed in Dinky cars, Transformers and some of my favourite Star Wars figures.
- Mind you, my generation has survived and we even had toys such as lead soldiers and Dinky cars which also were made of some or other alloy, a bit of lead too maybe.
- On his way out he grabbed a Dinky silver-dye cast model aircraft.
- For example, a die-cast Dinky lorry that sold for less than £1 in 1950 fetched £12,000 earlier this year.
adjectiveˈdiNGkēˈdɪŋki North American informal Small; insignificant. 〈北美，非正式〉小的；无关紧要的 I can't believe the dinky salaries they pay here 我不相信他们这里只付这点薪水。 Example sentencesExamples - This one's kinda dinky, but I'm not getting as much time to write as I'd thought.
- With so many speaker systems to choose from, there's little need to listen to a movie through the dinky hookup in your television.
- Finally, about half an hour later, Lauryn was dressed, fed, and in the dinky vehicle she liked to call a car, on her way to Chris's house.
- It is fair to say the only Porsche I could have afforded would have been a dinky toy.
- The dark was broken only by a few dinky lampposts here and there along the stretch of bumpy road.
- I don't want dinky little reviews that tell me nothing.
- I'd probably be stuck in Flordia, going to work every single day, and getting married at a dorky, dinky wedding down there.
- At best, the application could be called dinky; the interface is horrendous, and there is no user manual, or anything to really indicate what is going on.
- ‘If I can do all this from a little dinky office with no funding,’ he exclaims, ‘imagine what the FBI could do!’
- When I recently rammed the rear of a dinky Toyota on the Ventura Freeway, I bent it up pretty badly.
- We drove over and found a somewhat dinky little dirt park adjoining a railroad track.
- That's why Curtis has the least powerful computer at Merrill Lynch on his desk, along with a dinky monitor.
- This isn't a dinky log jump we're talking about; it's big air with even bigger consequences, so you've got to be certain you can clear the gap before you launch.
- Indeed, almost three decades on, his gift for moving is so astonishing that he makes Longborough's dinky stage feel ten times the size it is.
- Of course I mean more than a small dinky deposit, anyone with some geological training or even studying can figure out probable areas where there might be a deposit.
- After the heroic installations of Judd, Flavin and Andre on the lower floors of the Guggenheim, McCollum's modestly sized, wall-mounted works looked, well, dinky.
- Our daughter lives with us, not some teacher and her husband in a dinky apartment!
- Are we going to be living in some small, dinky shack with no running water and a cast iron cauldron for cooking?
- I gripped my dinky plastic fork we were supplied with by the mean cafeteria ladies in my hand; I was very tempted to just stab her.
- How in the world could a school with such a dinky gym ever help a league with big-time aspirations?
OriginLate 18th century: from Scots and northern English dialect dink ‘neat, trim’, of unknown origin. nounˈdɪŋkiˈdiNGkē informal A partner in a well-off working couple with no children. 〈非正式〉家境殷实双方都有工作而无子女的夫妻中的一方；丁克 Example sentencesExamples - "They're dinkies," Doyle nodded across the aisle.
- They're dinkies, and she works on lots of temporary contracts so she gets to spend a lot of the winter up there.
- No kiddies, old man. Not yet, anyway. Just a couple dinkies, that's us.
Origin1980s: acronym from double income, no kids, on the pattern of yuppy. |