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noun

ding-dong, dingdong n.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

(Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

A stupid or foolish person; used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. (slang)

Synonyms: ding-a-ling, doofus.

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Etymology of 'Ding-dong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ding-dong" Quotes from Famous Books

... hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen. As Rikki-tikki went up the path, he heard his "attention" notes like a tiny dinner gong, and then the steady "Ding-dong-tock! Nag is dead—dong! Nagaina is dead! Ding-dong-tock!" That set all the birds in the garden singing, and the frogs croaking, for Nag and Nagaina used to eat frogs as well ...

— The Jungle Book • Rudyard Kipling

... five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear ...

— The Hundred Best English Poems • Various

... week earlier, Benton explained to her. With his size gang he could not keep a donkey engine working steadily. So they had felled and trimmed to a good start, and now the falling crew and the swampers and buckers were in a dingdong contest to see how long they could keep ahead of the ...

— Big Timber - A Story of the Northwest • Bertrand W. Sinclair