Dinged vs Dinger - What's the difference?
dinged | dinger |
(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
A bell or chime.
* 1997 , Sarah Gregory, Public Trust , Signet (1997), ISBN 9780451190765, page 47:
(baseball) A home run.
* 1989 , John Holway, "
* 1997 , Hank Davis, Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball , University of Nebraska Press (2003), ISBN 0803266391,
* 2008 , , The Great Book of Detroit Sports Lists , Running Press (2008), ISBN 9780762433544,
(North America, slang) The penis.
* 1994 , Max Evans, Bluefeather Fellini in the Sacred Realm , University Press of Colorado (1994), ISBN 9780553565409, page 131:
(Australian slang, dated) A condom.
(Australian slang) The buttocks, the anus.
* 1955 , Norman Bartlett, Island Victory , Angus and Robertson (1955),
* 1979 , Derek Maitland, Breaking Out , Allen Lane (1979),
* 1988 , Peter Pinney, The Barbarians: A Soldier's New Guinea Diary , University of Queensland Press (1988), ISBN 9780702221583,
(Australian slang) A catapult, a shanghai.
* 2010 , , Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family , Anu E Press (2010), ISBN 9781921666209,
As a verb dinged
is (ding).As a noun dinger is
.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.
See also
* ding dongEtymology 3
Romanized from (etyl)dinger
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sharon patted the dinger to call for service.
- The starting pitcher gave up three dingers .
Strikeouts: The High Cost of Hitting Home Runs", Baseball Digest , June 1989:
- He should know, he fanned 2597 times — far more than any other man — but made millions hitting 563 dingers .
page 264:
- Then as you're taking his picture, say something about the thirty dingers he's going to hit this season. You get that little extra smile on his face.
page 209:
- For you youngsters out there, hitting 50 dingers in the pre-steroid craze days of the early 90s was an actual accomplishment; the only questionable substance Fielder was putting in his body were McRib sandwiches.
- "He had a red wool sock on his dinger . That's all."
- Let?s leave them to sit on their dingers for a while.
page 6:
- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
page 63:
- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
page 109:
- "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger !"
page 59:
- We made our 'dingers' (as we called them) out of truck tyre inner tubes that were heavy-duty rubber that could shoot a stone a very long distance.
