Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Slang An empty-headed or silly person.
- noun An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
- noun Slang An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
- noun Printing A typographical ornament or symbol.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal A
silly ,crazy orstupid person. - noun typography A special
ornamental typographical symbol , such as abullet , anarrow , a pointing hand etc. - noun architecture An
architectural style ofapartment building, where the secondstorey overhangs an area forparking cars.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a silly empty-headed person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I find it fitting that the term dingbat also refers to harebrained humans, a la Edith Bunker or a character in a George Herriman comic strip.
JSOnline.com 2009
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than "Schmoopie" had a one-night stand, I would definitely want him to tell me about it.
Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than "Schmoopie" had a one-night stand, I would definitely want him to tell me about it.
Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than "Schmoopie" had a one-night stand, I would definitely want him to tell me about it.
Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than "Schmoopie" had a one-night stand, I would definitely want him to tell me about it.
Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than "Schmoopie" had a one-night stand, I would definitely want him to tell me about it.
Pat Gallagher: Post-50 One-Night Stands: Don't Try This at Home! Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Pat Gallagher 2012
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If my husband Buffoon his affectionate nickname for me is dingbat, which is much better than
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Pat Gallagher 2012
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I think it will not do Sarah any good to align herself with this "dingbat".
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The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design presents the Dingbat 2.0 Exhibition, featuring winning and selected entries from the recently completed Dingbat 2.0 Housing Competition, which challenged architects and designers to reconsider Los Angeles 'ubiquitous "dingbat" apartment building for the 21st century.
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A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes".
Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2022
trivet commented on the word dingbat
There was a ranch near where I grew up - the sign on the gate as you drove by: "dingbat flat." I always liked the name, til I found out that another dingbat flat was the site of an Australian race riot.
February 17, 2007
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