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dinky

/ding-kee/US // ˈdɪŋ ki //UK // (ˈdɪŋkɪ) //

丁丁,小鬼,丁克,丁丁车

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    dink·i·er, dink·i·est.

    • : Informal. small, unimportant, unimpressive, or shabby: We stayed in a dinky old hotel.
    • : British Informal. fashionable; well dressed; smart.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dink·ies.

    • : dinkey.

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Examples

  • Even if you’re using the dinky camera on your laptop, the right lighting setup will make you look a lot better.

  • You think that this tragedy has given you an opportunity to catapult you [sic] dinky blog and newspaper to new heights.

  • We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara.

  • I'm a good enough Yank to see if your dinky police is such an all-fired cute little bunch of wonder-workers as you say!

  • I guess its free cruising ground for anybody who can afford to own a steam yacht, or even a common little dinky motorboat.

  • What fun is it to walk down into that dinky little village keeping step like convicts?

  • But I figured out: there's camp-meetin's an' socials up there, an' a nice, dinky, white shirt once in a way goes pretty good.