Dinky vs Slight - What's the difference?
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(informal, British) Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
* 1915 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of the Island ,
* 2010 , Sharon Wallace, A House Full of Whispers ,
(informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
Double income, no kids yet. Said of a relationship.
Small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 Not stout or heavy; slender.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(obsolete) Foolish; silly; weak in intellect.
To treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.
* Cowper
To treat with disdain or neglect.
To act negligently or carelessly.
(military, of a fortification) To render no longer defensible by full or partial demolition.
To make even or level.
To throw heedlessly.
* Shakespeare
The act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.
* (Benjamin Franklin)
Sleight.
Dinky is a related term of slight.
As adjectives the difference between dinky and slight
is that dinky is (informal|british) tiny and cute; small and attractive while slight is small, weak or gentle; not decidedly marked; not forcible; inconsiderable; unimportant; insignificant; not severe.As an acronym dinky
is double income, no kids yet said of a relationship.As a verb slight is
to treat as slight or not worthy of attention, to make light of.As a noun slight is
the act of slighting; a deliberate act of neglect or discourtesy.dinky
English
Adjective
(er)- How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky .
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- I played in the dirt with a small dinky car as the garage held no fascination for a little girl of five.
- They stayed in a dinky hotel room, but they had a great trip.
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*slight
English
Adjective
(er)- Slight is the subject, but not so the praise.
- Some firmly embrace doctrines upon slight grounds.
citation, passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
- his own figure, which was formerly so slight
- (Hudibras)
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* slightish * slightly * slightnessVerb
(en verb)- the wretch who slights the bounty of the skies
- (Clarendon)
- (Hexham)
- The rogue slighted me into the river.
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* slightinglyNoun
(wikipedia slight) (en noun)- Never use a slighting expression to her, even in jest; for slights in jest, after frequent bandyings, are apt to end in angry earnest.
- (Spenser)