Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small locomotive used in a railroad yard, as for shunting.

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  • noun a small locomotive

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From dinky.]

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Examples

  • Allensworth enjoyed the special privilege of obtaining the use of the "dinkey" to go ashore whenever he desired.

    Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army 1914

  • In the nature of things the tea-drinking in the stuffy "dinkey" drawing-room was not prolonged.

    A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

  • While Adams was dispensing commissary tea in iron-stone china cups to his two guests in the "dinkey" field office, his chief, taking the

    A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

  • A string of use-worn bunk cars; a "dinkey" caboose serving as the home on wheels of the chief of construction and his assistant; a crooked siding with

    A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

  • Him an 'Beetles was tradin' partners an 'they ran the first dinkey little steamboat up the Koyokuk.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • If you want to suck dinkey dick because sucking donkey dick gets your rocks off then that is your sexual taste.

    Briain Paddick makes joke about dead MP's sexual tastes 2008

  • What's those dinkey little reports and monkeydoodle business amount to, anyhow?

    The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909

  • He found out the girl's folks were not very rich, and then he set about raising the high dinkey-dink with everything.

    Frank Merriwell's Cruise Burt L. Standish 1905

  • Get into your white flannels and pretty blue coat and put on your dinkey rah-rah, and follow me.

    The Common Law 1899

  • Below lay the chaotic construction camp buried in silence and in darkness save for the lighted windows of the dinkey.

    A Fool for Love Francis Lynde 1893

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  • As humpback compares to a minke

    Or fist to a fluttering pinky

    Do engines for trains

    That roar ’cross the plains

    Compare to the stuttering dinkey.

    November 4, 2018