Dinged vs Dinge - What's the difference?
dinged | dinge |
(ding)
(informal) Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.
(colloquial) A rejection.
To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang.
To hit or strike.
To dash; to throw violently.
* Milton
To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.
(colloquial) To fire or reject.
(colloquial) To deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty.
(golf) To mishit (a golf ball).
To make high-pitched sound like a bell.
* Washington Irving
To keep repeating; impress by reiteration, with reference to the monotonous striking of a bell.
* 1884 , Oswald Crawfurd, English comic dramatists :
(intransitive, colloquial, gaming) To level up
Dinginess.
A black person.
*1940 , (Raymond Chandler), Farewell, My Lovely , Penguin 2010 p. 3:
*:‘A dinge ,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’
* 1970 , (John Glassco), Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 46:
*:‘You made a hit with the dinge ,’ Bob was saying.
To strike, scourge, or beat.
To flog, as in penance
As verbs the difference between dinged and dinge
is that dinged is (ding) while dinge is to strike, scourge, or beat.As a noun dinge is
dinginess.dinged
English
Verb
(head)ding
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) dingen, .Noun
(en noun)- I just got my first ding letter.
Verb
- The elevator dinged and the doors opened.
- to ding the book a coit's distance from him
- If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. — BBC surfing Wales [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/surfing/sites/features/pages/dings.shtml]
- His top school dinged him last week.
- My bank dinged me three bucks for using their competitor's ATM.
Derived terms
* ding upEtymology 2
Onomatopoeic.English onomatopoeias Compare ,Verb
(en verb)- The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
- If I'm to have any good, let it come of itself; not keep dinging' it, ' dinging it into one so.