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dinky
adjective- small, unassuming US, 1895
- I gave her the bag, rumbling awkwardly about “Merry Early Christmas,” then played some dinky tune while she dug into the bag and pulled out the first one. — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 90, 1965
- The whore was in a dinky little North Main hotel. — Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show, p. 55, 1966
- “Here you are standing in deep shit and you’re worried about a little dinky melon crop.” — Elmore Leonard, Mr. Majestyk, p. 86, 1974
- They entered the dinky apartment single file. Prince glanced around at the cheap furniture. — Donald Goines, Black Gangster, p. 32, 1977
- The judge that convicted Sonny and the doc is the same one gave me ten years straight up, minimum, and gave you five on that dinky violating probation charge. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 53, 1991
- She was telling me about how she hitchhiked from some dinky little town in Illinois[.] — Clarence Major, All-Night Visitors, p. 3, 1998
- neat, spruce, dainty UK, 1788
- [Dylan] Evans’s dinky, pink-jacketed survey shows that reason can be impotent without the passions. — The Guardian, 10 February 2001
- of music, pleasant, easy-listening UK
- “Time for a little music,” the first black publican says. “Reggae?” I ask innocently. He glares. “No,” he says, calming himself. “Something really dinky.” The music of Bert Kaempfert oozes from the speakers. — Illustrated London News, June 1976
- wildly enthusiastic, crazy US
- Last week the 49ers won a (one) game and the two sports fans went dinky. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle, Sunday Punch, p. 8, 2 November 1969
- fair; honest AUSTRALIA, 1941
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