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▪ I. dinge, n.1|dɪndʒ|
Also 7 dindge.
[See dinge v.1]
A broadish dint or depression on a surface caused by a knock or blow; a slight hollow or indentation.
1611Cotgr., Bosselure, a bruise, dindge, or dint, in a peece of plate, or mettall. 1844Bamford Life of Radical 42 His hat was napless, with..dinges on the crown. 1862Mrs. J. H. Riddell World in Church xvii. (1865) 189 In my keeping your pride shall not even get a dinge. 1884Cheshire Gloss., Dinge, an indentation. 1894Times 27 Oct. 8/1 The paint only is scratched, and there is not a dent or dinge anywhere else.
▪ II. dinge, n.2|dɪndʒ|
[f. dinge v.2, or back-formation from dingy a.]
Dinginess.
1846E. D. Bancroft Let. 2 Nov. (1904) 12, I cannot get accustomed to the London dinge. 1854Thackeray Newcomes xxxv, A noble dinge, a venerable mouldy splendour. 1860― Round. Papers (1863) 117 The dinge and wrinkles of their wretched old cotton stockings. 1916Galsworthy Five Tales (1918) 249 His mood threw a dinge even over the children. 1968J. R. Ackerley My Father & Myself xvi. 182 The dust and dinge of the cluttered house.
▪ III. dinge, n.3 U.S. slang.|dɪndʒ|
Also dingy.
[f. dingy a.]
A derogatory term for a Negro. Also attrib. or as adj., esp. with reference to a jazz style developed by Negro musicians. (See also quot. 1942.)
1848Ladies' Repository Oct. 316/1 Covess dinge, a negress, sometimes called dinge blowen... Dinge kinch, a negro child... Dinge, a negro man. 1904in ‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 247. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny 134 These dingies will cheat you out of the gold in your teeth if you don't understand their ways. 1933E. Hemingway Winner take Nothing 43 That big dinge took him by surprise..the big black bastard. 1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely i. 9 ‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out.’ Ibid. 10 ‘You say this here is a dinge joint?’.. ‘I told you it's a coloured joint.’ 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §32/8 Dinge, of negroes, dark or dusky in colour, dingy. Ibid. §385/14 Negro,..dinge, dingy. Ibid. §576/2 Dinge,..a negro musician. Ibid. §579/1 Dinge, ‘Negro vibrato’ played with a very rapid, violent shake. 1958V. Bellerby in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xvii. 205 The ‘dinge’ piano trill, deriving from the efforts of the early Negro instrumentalists to sing through their instruments, instinctively holding the rich overtones of Negro speech. 1969A. Hunter Gently Coloured i. 4 A big buck nigger. A dinge. A spade. Ibid. 8 A dinge bit. It has to be.
▪ IV. dinge, v.1
Also 7 dindge.
[app. a northern dialect word, of recent appearance in literature; origin uncertain.
Possibly representing an earlier *denge from ON. dęngja to hammer, bang, beat: see ding v., and cf. singe from OE. sęngan:—sangjan. But later onomatopœic origin from dint seems also possible.]
trans. To make a broadish hollow or depression in the surface of (anything), as by a knock; to dint, bruise, batter.
1611Cotgr., Bosseler, to dindge, or bruise, to make a dint in vessell of mettall, or in a peece of plate. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Dinge, to dint, to bruise, to make a hollow. 1871Daily News 21 Sept., Its brass scabbard is dinged and bent in two or three places. 1888Sheffield Gloss., Dinge, to indent, to bruise. (It rhymes with hinge.)
Hence dinged |dɪndʒd| ppl. a.; dinged work, repoussé work in metal.
1874Knight Dict. Mech., Dinged-work, work embossed by blows which depress one surface and raise the other. 1885Fitzpatrick Life T. N. Burke I. 239 A heavy long-tailed coat and a dinged high hat.
▪ V. dinge, v.2 dial. or rare colloq.
[Belongs to dingy a.]
trans. To make dingy.
1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Amicus Rediv., A suit, originally of a sad brown, but which..has been dinged into a true professional sable. 1883Chamb. Jrnl. 525 ‘My cabin is rather dinged’ was the apology of the oyster dredger as he ushered me into his yawl. 1891Rutland Gloss., s.v., It dinges (or ? dingies) my hands sitting in the house. |