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Dinky   Listen
adjective
dinky  adj.  
1.
Small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel. (informal)
2.
Pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a dinky little hat. (British informal)





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"Dinky" Quotes from Famous Books



... pet, and I am very fond of him, for I think he saved my life once. I was just on the point of stepping on a cobra when Dinky attacked the snake and killed him after a fight," added Khayrat. "I think he is on the track of the enemy, for the serpent killed two chickens ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
... paint off him—and skins him. And the kid, being foolish and impulsive-like, pulls out a peashooter. It was a twenty-two," said Bunt, solemnly. "Yes, the kid was just that pore, pathetic kind to carry a dinky twenty-two, and with the tears runnin' down his cheeks begins to talk tall. Now what does that Cockeye do? Why, that pore kid that he had skinned couldn't 'a' hurt him with his pore little bric-a-brac. ...
— A Deal in Wheat - And Other Stories of the New and Old West • Frank Norris
... began, "ye know I wash Mrs. Evans's dishes every day, and lovely ones they are, too, all pink and gold with dinky little ivy leaves crawlin' out over the edges of the cups. I play I am at the seashore and the tide is comin' in o'er and o'er the sand and 'round and 'round the land, far as eye can see—that's out of a book. ...
— Sowing Seeds in Danny • Nellie L. McClung
... Jacka for a full minute, and then a dinky little smile started in one eye and spread till it covered the whole of ...
— The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... she means to have is gold, Her eyes are blue, she's twelve weeks old, Plump are her fists and pinky. She fluttered down in lucky hour From some blue deep in yon sky bower— I call her "Little Dinky." Little Dinky. ...
— The World's Best Poetry — Volume 10 • Various
... persisted Dulcie, pulling a face. "No, you dinky, deary Cousin Clare, you'll never persuade me to like school again! I shall catch a cold on purpose as soon as I go back, and then you'll have to bring me over here for the sake of a warmer climate. I'll bribe ...
— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil


Words linked to "Dinky" :   U.K., engine, colloquialism, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, little, railway locomotive, dinkey, UK, Great Britain, United Kingdom, attractive, small, locomotive engine, locomotive


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