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Dingy

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) I like it! Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:05:13

Din"gey (?), Din"gy, Din"ghy, n. [Bengalee dingi.]

1.

A kind of boat used in the East Indies.

[Written also dinghey.]

Malcom.

2.

A ship's smallest boat.

 

© Webster 1913.


Din"gy (?), a. [Compar. Dingier (?); superl. Dingiest.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.]

Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.

"Scraps of dingy paper."

Macaulay.

 

© Webster 1913.


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