Dinger vs Dinge - What's the difference?
dinger | dinge |
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,
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 nouns the difference between dinger and dinge
is that dinger is while dinge is dinginess.As a verb dinge is
to strike, scourge, or beat.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 .
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- "We'd get even more out of 'em if some of the pilots sat on their dingers less and polished their kites more."
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- And why had he belted the Australian envoy flat on his dinger in that Spanish bar?
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- "Yeah? Well, stand up anyone who's got a three-inch mortar hid up his dinger !"
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- 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.