dingy

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of dinghy. alt-of,alternative
动词 v.
  1. Alternative form of dinghy. alt-of,alternative
形容词 adj.
  1. Dark, dull.
    — The station has been refurbished both at ground level and below ground, where the wide, fluorescently lit platforms are an almost unrecognisable metamorphosis of the dingy, reeking Low Level of old.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound). informal,rare
    — I love it when they hit. You know the sound when they hit? That dingy sound, it’s like faster, and contained somehow? That’s a great sound. Happens like a fraction of a second before you know what you’ve hit, before you figure it out.
  3. Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
    — He led her through dingy wareroom after wareroom, counting-house after counting-house, where the clerks all were silent and subdued. He led her at last into a dingy sanctum, dimly lighted by one shaded lamp. In this safe there were piles of dingy papers and more dingy ledgers; […]

词形变化

dingier comparative dingiest superlative dingies plural dingies present,singular,third-person dingying participle,present dingied participle,past dingied past dingier comparative dingiest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
dingily dinginess dingy dart dingy skipper grungy

词源

词源 1
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English ding
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English dingy
From ding + -y.
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