Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Something whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- noun A person regarded as stupid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a
thingamajig . - noun A fool or incompetent person.
- noun slang, vulgar
penis
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Steve Jobs claims the dingus is a "game changer" with implications for publishing, but then he hasn't offered any numerical forecasts.
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Steve Jobs claims the dingus is a "game changer" with implications for publishing, but then he hasn't offered any numerical forecasts.
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Steve Jobs claims the dingus is a "game changer" with implications for publishing, but then he hasn't offered any numerical forecasts.
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Short of the 'dingus' bit (touch juvenile, if deserved), I'd say that's one level response to someone seemingly intent on your professional demise.
Ask MetaFilter 2009
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Short of the 'dingus' bit (touch juvenile, if deserved), I'd say that's one level response to someone seemingly intent on your professional demise.
Ask MetaFilter 2009
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a retired British officer in pursuit of a "dingus," this one a few centuries older than a jewel-encrusted "black bird" that was the object of Spade's enquiries.
The Rule of Reason 2010
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I reccommend a little metal dingus called a tick removal key.
hey i just got a nest of deer ticks on me but i cant c them any more how do i get them off 2009
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Neither Bush nor Cheney earned anything, much less all the money they pissed away on THEIR WAR, dingus … …
Think Progress » Anti-Obama billboards spring up in Atlanta. 2010
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Got to the point in Caught Stealing where we learn what the “dingus” that everyone is looking for is.
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I reccommend a little metal dingus called a tick removal key.
hey i just got a nest of deer ticks on me but i cant c them any more how do i get them off 2009
bilby commented on the word dingus
"They were two unarmed, uniformed members of the maggoty old Big Apple's Finest, standing in a well-lit air-conditioned hallway on the twenty-sixth floor of a brand-new apartment building - or maybe it was a condo, who the fuck knew, when Officers Cautious and Extremely were boys, a condo was something a guy with a speech impediment wore on the end of his dingus - and no one was going to creep up on them or jump out of the ceiling on top of them or hose them down with a magic Uzi that never jammed or never ran out of ammunition."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007
EditorMark commented on the word dingus
A probably related word is "dinkus," a typographer's symbol used to separate sections of a book within a chapter.
August 7, 2010