Dingus vs Dinkus - What's the difference?
dingus | dinkus |
Something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.
* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
* 1979 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), After You with the Pistol , Penguin 2001, p. 241:
A fool or incompetent person.
(slang, vulgar) penis
* 1970 , Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati , Trident Press (1970), ISBN 9780671270568, page 74:
A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
Dinkus is a alternative form of dingus.
As nouns the difference between dingus and dinkus
is that dingus is something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig while dinkus is a small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.dingus
English
Noun
(es)- I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
- ‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?’
- I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus .
- "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess.
