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Gulch vs Dingus - What's the difference?

gulch | dingus |

As nouns the difference between gulch and dingus

is that gulch is a ravine-like or deep v-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully while dingus is something whose name is either unknown or forgotten; a thingamajig.

As a verb gulch

is (obsolete) to swallow greedily; to gulp down.

gulch

English

Verb

(es)
  • (obsolete) To swallow greedily; to gulp down.
  • Noun

    (es)
  • A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; it is shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
  • (obsolete) An act of gulching or gulping.
  • (obsolete) A glutton.
  • (Ben Jonson)

    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