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dinky adj.

Small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel. (informal)

Pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a dinky little hat. (British informal)

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Etymology of 'Dinky'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dinky" Quotes from Famous Books

... day the Piking ceased. No more of the dinky trafficking of the Retailer. He went out and bought Public Service Utilities on Nerve, treated them with Aqua Pura by the Hogshead, and created Wealth by purely lithographic Methods. And, if he wanted to reason out a Deal with ...

— Ade's Fables • George Ade

... gun that'll outshoot the dinky little carbines an' muskets used by the rebels. Trot one ...

— Desert Gold • Zane Grey

... this is the game: down there in Carlina where we are going there is a one-horse republic where they used to have a dinky little kingdom. A republic is all right when it's an honest republic, but this one isn't. It was stolen, and stolen from the finest woman in the world. I'm going to give you all a chance to see her some day, and ...

— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett

Words linked to "Dinky" : small, railway locomotive, dinkey, locomotive, Britain, little, colloquialism, UK