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dingbat

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɪŋbæt/Part of speech nounSorted abdgintStarts with DEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a silly empty-headed person

Word origin

Unknown, US mid 19th century. The word-puzzle sense comes from the board game Dingbats, which is based on these puzzles. In the sense of a miscellaneous gadget, probably influenced by dingus or its etyma.

Used in a sentence

  • 'Midge was such a dingbat', Jenny Fields wrote in her autobiography, 'that she went to Hawaii for a vacation during World War Two.'
  • I hung around the older crews while they sling smack to dingbats
  • The fire department is out here because some dingbat parked in the red zone.

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