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Doink vs Dingus - What's the difference?

doink | dingus |

As nouns the difference between doink and dingus

is that doink is (slang) a fool; a jerk; a worthless person while dingus is something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.

As a verb doink

is (us slang|humorous|transitive) to have sexual intercourse (with someone).

doink

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (US slang, humorous, transitive) To have sexual intercourse (with someone)
    • You kind of want to doink him, don't you?

    Synonyms

    * See .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A fool; a jerk; a worthless person.
  • * 1989 , Thomas Szollosi, The Proving (page 55)
    • High school crowds; doinks with nothing better to do than come down to this pisshole and wave through the glass partition at the biggest jerk in the whole gang.
  • * 1990 , Grant Naylor, Better Than Life
    • 'Mayday... Mayday...' Rimmer turned. 'I wonder why it's "Mayday"? 'It's French, you doink . Help me - m'aidez . How much food is there?'
  • * 1994 , William Shatner, Tek Power (page 152)
    • "Are you this critical of all the Club 900 patrons?" The mechanical doorman made a chuckling noise. "Sure, sap. It makes you doinks feel extra guilty."
  • * 2008 , Matthew Theisen, The Supreme Witness (page 46)
    • We're about the only people here who are in everyday wardrobe; all the other fools are trying to outdo those doinks in Hollywood.

    dingus

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • Something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.
  • * 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 29:
    • 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.
  • * 1979 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), After You with the Pistol , Penguin 2001, p. 241:
    • ‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?’
  • A fool or incompetent person.
    • I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus .
  • (slang, vulgar) penis
  • * 1970 , Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati , Trident Press (1970), ISBN 9780671270568, page 74:
    • "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess.

    See also

    * doofus (2) English placeholder terms