dingyadj.¹n.

Brit.

/ˈdɪn(d)ʒi/, U.S.

/ˈdɪndʒi/

Forms: 1600s– dingy, 1700s– dingey (now nonstandard).

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English dinge , dung n.¹, -y suffix¹.

Etymology: Probably < dinge, regional variant of dung n.¹ (compare β. forms at that entry) + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier dungy adj. (especially sense 2 at that entry). With use as noun compare earlier dinge n.² 3. N.E.D. (1896) notes that the word is ‘not recognized by Dr. Johnson’, and that Richardson (1837) reports that ‘dingy and dinginess are common in speech, but not in writing’.

A. adj.¹

1. Dirty. In later use English regional (east midlands, East Anglian, and south-eastern).

ΚΠ

1656 R. Baxter Gildas Salvianus: 1st Pt. i. 46 Though you know the meat to be good and wholsom yet it may make a weak stomach rise against it, if the Cook or the servant that carryeth it have pocky, or leprous, or dingy hands.

1700 R. Burridge Shoe-maker beyond his Last 6 Dingy Walls, Daub'd like a Taylor's Shop, with Snot and Spittle.

1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 351 What we, in Hertfordshire, call tagging a sheep..is cutting..away, with a pair of shears, the dingy wool from the hinder parts.

1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Dingey (‘g’ soft), coated with dirt.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 77/2 Dingy, dirty. ‘'Is dabs war that dingy yer'd nivver a knowed A'd onny just put 'em on 'im.’

a. Of a (disagreeably) dark and dull colour, or having a dirty or gloomy appearance; devoid of or lacking in brightness or freshness of colour or hue, esp. due to grime or neglect, or to a deficiency of daylight or sunshine. Also (esp. in early use): of a naturally dark or sombre colour (obsolete except in specific uses such as Compounds 1b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured

wannish?a1412

colourless1557

sullena1586

sober1603

dingy1665

dunduckety1818

duckety1841

drabbish1842

neutral-tinted1844

drabby1862

drab1880

drably-tinted1891

terne1901

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > dingy or discoloured

foul1547

miscoloured1648

dingy1665

tarnished1716

dinged1725

distained1838

1665 R. Monsey Scarronides 83 This Country hath a hollow place, As dark you cannot see your face; A dingy hole 'tis, and a dismal, Inviron'd round with woods is this vale.

1751 R. Lloyd Progress of Envy xxiii Black was her [sc. Envy's] chariot, drawn by dragons dire..And land their dingy car on Caledonian plain.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 374 The dingy vault, in whose profundity we were lost.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 245 Herds of buffaloes..whose dingy hide..contrasted with the greyish hue..of the Tuscan oxen.

1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 22 Mar. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 422 A dim, dingy morning.

1884 Manch. Examiner 13 May 5/2 More disagreeable than the dingy weather and unlovely streets without.

1937 Life 26 July 7/2 (advt.) Colgate's special penetrating foam..emulsifies and washes away the decaying food deposits that cause most bad breath, dull, dingy teeth, and much tooth decay.

2014 S. Dharmapala Saree (2015) 475 The Meat Works? That has to be one of the oldest and dingiest butchers in all of Melbourne.

b. spec. offensive and derogatory. Designating a black or (formerly also) mixed-race person; of or relating to a black person or black people. Cf. sense B., dinge adj. Now rare (in later use chiefly U.S. slang).

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective]

blackOE

Morian1504

African1548

Negro1593

black Morian1631

neger1657

Ethiopian1684

nigger1689

Hubshee1698

Kaffir1731

Nigritian1757

Ethiopic1778

dingy1785

blackamoor1813

nigger-looking1837

darkie1840

Negroid1844

Negroloid1844

dinge1848

Melanian1861

negroish1861

Negroidal1878

Africanoid1885

chocolate?1886

melanodermic1924

nigra1938

tan1950

the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black

mulatto1677

quadroon1748

dingy1785

yellow1796

high brown1911

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Dingey Christian, a mulatto, or any one who has, as the West Indian term is, a lick of the tar brush, that is, some negroe blood in them.

1796 Hull Advertiser 27 Feb. 2/3 The dingy mother rov'd With eager step, and sought her child.

1831 Bell's Life in London 12 June There's nothing like Jamaica Rum, to warm your dingy frame, Old Blackee.

a1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge (1836) xviii. 299 My talkative hostess, a deuced buxom-looking dingy dame.

1962 P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! xxxii. 325 Ya goddamned dingy bastard!

c. figurative. Of a dubious or questionable character or reputation; shady. Also: mundane, uninteresting; dull.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of doubtful reputation

queer?a1513

questionable1788

equivocal1790

shy1849

dingy1855

demi-reputable1897

off-white1951

1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxv. 319 Doing me the honour to introduce me by name to several dingy acquaintances.

1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. iii. 44 I know plenty of dingy people; I don't want to know any more.

1994 D. Fallowell 20th Cent. Char. 207 Graham Greene..created his own world, Greeneland, a place of dingey but crucial events.

B. n.

U.S. slang. (offensive and derogatory). A black person. Cf. sense A. 2b, dinge n.² 3a. Now somewhat rare.

ΚΠ

1896 Dial. Notes 1 415 Dingy, a negro.

1903 R. L. McCardell Conversat. Chorus Girl 15 Dingies..billed..as ‘Octoroon Odalisques’.

1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 817/1 These dingies will cheat you out of the gold in your teeth if you don't understand their ways.

1945 St. C. Drake & H. R. Cayton Black Metropolis x. 267 Epithets like ‘nigger’, ‘darky’, ‘shine’, ‘smoke’, ‘spade’, ‘dingy’,..used as short-cut symbols to express all the contempt concentrated in the popular estimate of the Negro.

Compounds

C1.

a. Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, indicating a dull, drab, or dirty shade, as in dingy grey, dingy white, etc.

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1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. v. 175 This Seed is a little crooked, adorn'd with a tuft nine or ten lines long, of a dingy white approaching to red, pretty dry and brittle, consisting of a dozen hairs.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 56 The smoaky and dingy black are easily distinguishable in it.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 28 He wore a pair of dingy-white stockinet pantaloons.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 66/3 (advt.) Turn your back on dingy rusts and ‘standard’ greens that ‘go with everything’.

2005 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 12 Now, rather than being a dingy grey, the kitchen has a pristine white ceiling and woodwork and the walls are a tasteful pale lavender.

b. Forming names of butterflies, moths, or caterpillars that are drab in colour (typically grey or brown).

ΚΠ

1766 M. Harris Aurelian 73 Dingey Skipper. This Butterfly appears fresh the sixth of May; they fly very low over the tops of the grass; I don't perceive them to be fond of any place in particular.

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 426 (table) [Botys] glabralis. The dingy Pearl.

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 142 The Dingy Wave..appears in June.

1905 Tenth Ann. Rep. Illinois Farmers' Inst. 281 The dingy cutworm is one of the commonest species, especially in corn, where it shares with the greasy cutworm the principal injury to that crop.

1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 8 The Dingy Shears (Dyschorista fissipuncta).

1955 E. B. Ford Moths v. 70 The Dingy Footman, Eilema griseola Hb...is usually of a light greyish shade.

1970 L. G. Higgins & N. D. Riley Butterflies of Brit. & Europe 331 Erynnis tages Dingy Skipper.

2016 M. F. Braby Compl. Field Guide Butterflies Austral. (ed. 2) 98 Dingy Grass-skipper males have a conspicuous, oblique, black sex-brand compared to Bright Shield-skipper males.

c. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) dingy ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as dingy-coloured, dingy-walled, etc.

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?1783 J. Edwards Direct. Composition Telescopes 7 The Acid contained in the Air, by acting upon it, extracts the Copper from the Tin, and turns the Metal into a dirty or dingy colored Speculum.

1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 8 June 637/3 My attention was first led up that dingy-walled side-street by a picturesque domestic scene upon the curb-stone at the corner.

1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 201 Narrow and dingy-spirited specialists.

2019 J. Naremore Film Noir: Very Short Introd. ii. 30 [Graham] Greene's entertainments take place in what reviewers called ‘Greeneland’, a world of dingy-roomed houses, canned fish, and drooping aspidistras.

C2.

dingy-looking adj. having a dull, drab, or dirty appearance.

ΚΠ

1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Tourists V. 150 They reached the dingy-looking town of Pont-y-Pool.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 45 The church is a dingy-looking edifice.

2000 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Features section) 3 Brighten up those dull, dark days (and any dingy-looking room) with this fab string of fairy lights.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

dingyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈdɪŋi/, U.S.

/ˈdɪŋi/

Forms: 1900s– dingey, 1900s– dingie, 1900s– dingy.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ding int., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: Apparently < ding int. + -y suffix¹. Compare ding-a-ling adj. and later ding-a-ling n. 2.Perhaps compare also later ding n.⁷, ding-dong n. 5, and dingbat n. 3a.

colloquial (originally and chiefly North American).

Mad, crazy, insane. Also (and in earliest use) to go dingy on: to be infatuated or in love with.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)]

loveOE

paramoura1500

to love with1597

to be sweet on (upon)1740

to be cracked about or on1874

to be stuck on1878

mash1881

to be shook on1888

to go dingy on1904

to fall for ——1906

lurve1908

to have or get a crush on1913

to be soppy on1918

to have a pash for (or on)1922

to have a case on1928

to be queer for1941

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with

woodc725

woodsekc890

giddyc1000

out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000

witlessc1000

brainsickOE

amadc1225

lunaticc1290

madc1330

sickc1340

brain-wooda1375

out of one's minda1387

frenetica1398

fonda1400

formada1400

unwisea1400

brainc1400

unwholec1400

alienate?a1425

brainless1434

distract of one's wits1470

madfula1475

furious1475

distract1481

fro oneself1483

beside oneself1490

beside one's patience1490

dementa1500

red-wood?1507

extraught1509

misminded1509

peevish1523

bedlam-ripe1525

straughta1529

fanatic1533

bedlama1535

daft1540

unsounda1547

stark raving (also staring) mad1548

distraughted1572

insane1575

acrazeda1577

past oneself1576

frenzy1577

poll-mad1577

out of one's senses1580

maddeda1586

frenetical1588

distempered1593

distraught1597

crazed1599

diswitted1599

idle-headed1599

lymphatical1603

extract1608

madling1608

distracteda1616

informala1616

far gone1616

crazy1617

March mada1625

non compos mentis1628

brain-crazed1632

demented1632

crack-brained1634

arreptitiousa1641

dementate1640

dementated1650

brain-crackeda1652

insaniated1652

exsensed1654

bedlam-witteda1657

lymphatic1656

mad-like1679

dementative1685

non compos1699

beside one's gravity1716

hyte1720

lymphated1727

out of one's head1733

maddened1735

swivel-eyed1758

wrong1765

brainsickly1770

fatuous1773

derangedc1790

alienated1793

shake-brained1793

crack-headed1796

flighty1802

wowf1802

doitrified1808

phrenesiac1814

bedlamite1815

mad-braineda1822

fey1823

bedlamitish1824

skire1825

beside one's wits1827

as mad as a hatter1829

crazied1842

off one's head1842

bemadded1850

loco1852

off one's nut1858

off his chump1864

unsane1867

meshuga1868

non-sane1868

loony1872

bee-headed1879

off one's onion1881

off one's base1882

(to go) off one's dot1883

locoed1885

screwy1887

off one's rocker1890

balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891

meshuggener1892

nutty1892

buggy1893

bughouse1894

off one's pannikin1894

ratty1895

off one's trolley1896

batchy1898

twisted1900

batsc1901

batty1903

dippy1903

bugs1904

dingy1904

up the (also a) pole1904

nut1906

nuts1908

nutty as a fruitcake1911

bugged1920

potty1920

cuckoo1923

nutsy1923

puggled1923

blah1924

détraqué1925

doolally1925

off one's rocket1925

puggle1925

mental1927

phooey1927

crackers1928

squirrelly1928

over the edge1929

round the bend1929

lakes1934

ding-a-ling1935

wacky1935

screwball1936

dingbats1937

Asiatic1938

parlatic1941

troppo1941

up the creek1941

screwed-up1943

bonkers1945

psychological1952

out to lunch1955

starkers1956

off (one's) squiff1960

round the twist1960

yampy1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

out of one's skull1967

whacked out1969

batshit1971

woo-woo1971

nutso1973

out of (one's) gourd1977

wacko1977

off one's meds1986

1904 Rock Island (Illinois) Argus 7 Oct. (Last ed.) 5/3 She said she had gone dingy on a colored man.., and that they used to hold hands..while her baby told how much he liked her.

1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight xv. 304 He's a little dingy. I think he's gonna stab somebody before too long.

2020 @YouBusyLesbian 1 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Sept. 2020) I love how because therapists can't really say ‘crazy’ they're like ‘Yeah it makes us go a bit bonkers,..a little dingy, a tad fruity, a bit nutty.’

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dingy
释义	dingyadj.¹n. Brit. /ˈdɪn(d)ʒi/, U.S. /ˈdɪndʒi/ Forms: 1600s– dingy, 1700s– dingey (now nonstandard). Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: English dinge , dung n.¹, -y suffix¹. Etymology: Probably < dinge, regional variant of dung n.¹ (compare β. forms at that entry) + -y suffix¹. Compare earlier dungy adj. (especially sense 2 at that entry). With use as noun compare earlier dinge n.² 3. N.E.D. (1896) notes that the word is ‘not recognized by Dr. Johnson’, and that Richardson (1837) reports that ‘dingy and dinginess are common in speech, but not in writing’. A. adj.¹ 1. Dirty. In later use English regional (east midlands, East Anglian, and south-eastern). ΚΠ 1656 R. Baxter Gildas Salvianus: 1st Pt. i. 46 Though you know the meat to be good and wholsom yet it may make a weak stomach rise against it, if the Cook or the servant that carryeth it have pocky, or leprous, or dingy hands. 1700 R. Burridge Shoe-maker beyond his Last 6 Dingy Walls, Daub'd like a Taylor's Shop, with Snot and Spittle. 1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 351 What we, in Hertfordshire, call tagging a sheep..is cutting..away, with a pair of shears, the dingy wool from the hinder parts. 1888 B. Lowsley Gloss. Berks. Words & Phrases Dingey (‘g’ soft), coated with dirt. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 77/2 Dingy, dirty. ‘'Is dabs war that dingy yer'd nivver a knowed A'd onny just put 'em on 'im.’ 2. a. Of a (disagreeably) dark and dull colour, or having a dirty or gloomy appearance; devoid of or lacking in brightness or freshness of colour or hue, esp. due to grime or neglect, or to a deficiency of daylight or sunshine. Also (esp. in early use): of a naturally dark or sombre colour (obsolete except in specific uses such as Compounds 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > [adjective] > dull coloured wannish?a1412 colourless1557 sullena1586 sober1603 dingy1665 dunduckety1818 duckety1841 drabbish1842 neutral-tinted1844 drabby1862 drab1880 drably-tinted1891 terne1901 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > dingy or discoloured foul1547 miscoloured1648 dingy1665 tarnished1716 dinged1725 distained1838 1665 R. Monsey Scarronides 83 This Country hath a hollow place, As dark you cannot see your face; A dingy hole 'tis, and a dismal, Inviron'd round with woods is this vale. 1751 R. Lloyd Progress of Envy xxiii Black was her [sc. Envy's] chariot, drawn by dragons dire..And land their dingy car on Caledonian plain. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature II. 374 The dingy vault, in whose profundity we were lost. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 245 Herds of buffaloes..whose dingy hide..contrasted with the greyish hue..of the Tuscan oxen. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 22 Mar. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 422 A dim, dingy morning. 1884 Manch. Examiner 13 May 5/2 More disagreeable than the dingy weather and unlovely streets without. 1937 Life 26 July 7/2 (advt.) Colgate's special penetrating foam..emulsifies and washes away the decaying food deposits that cause most bad breath, dull, dingy teeth, and much tooth decay. 2014 S. Dharmapala Saree (2015) 475 The Meat Works? That has to be one of the oldest and dingiest butchers in all of Melbourne. b. spec. offensive and derogatory. Designating a black or (formerly also) mixed-race person; of or relating to a black person or black people. Cf. sense B., dinge adj. Now rare (in later use chiefly U.S. slang). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective] blackOE Morian1504 African1548 Negro1593 black Morian1631 neger1657 Ethiopian1684 nigger1689 Hubshee1698 Kaffir1731 Nigritian1757 Ethiopic1778 dingy1785 blackamoor1813 nigger-looking1837 darkie1840 Negroid1844 Negroloid1844 dinge1848 Melanian1861 negroish1861 Negroidal1878 Africanoid1885 chocolate?1886 melanodermic1924 nigra1938 tan1950 the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black mulatto1677 quadroon1748 dingy1785 yellow1796 high brown1911 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Dingey Christian, a mulatto, or any one who has, as the West Indian term is, a lick of the tar brush, that is, some negroe blood in them. 1796 Hull Advertiser 27 Feb. 2/3 The dingy mother rov'd With eager step, and sought her child. 1831 Bell's Life in London 12 June There's nothing like Jamaica Rum, to warm your dingy frame, Old Blackee. a1835 M. Scott Cruise of Midge (1836) xviii. 299 My talkative hostess, a deuced buxom-looking dingy dame. 1962 P. Crump Burn, Killer, Burn! xxxii. 325 Ya goddamned dingy bastard! c. figurative. Of a dubious or questionable character or reputation; shady. Also: mundane, uninteresting; dull. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > [adjective] > of doubtful reputation queer?a1513 questionable1788 equivocal1790 shy1849 dingy1855 demi-reputable1897 off-white1951 1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xxxv. 319 Doing me the honour to introduce me by name to several dingy acquaintances. 1881 H. James Portrait of Lady II. iii. 44 I know plenty of dingy people; I don't want to know any more. 1994 D. Fallowell 20th Cent. Char. 207 Graham Greene..created his own world, Greeneland, a place of dingey but crucial events. B. n. U.S. slang. (offensive and derogatory). A black person. Cf. sense A. 2b, dinge n.² 3a. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1896 Dial. Notes 1 415 Dingy, a negro. 1903 R. L. McCardell Conversat. Chorus Girl 15 Dingies..billed..as ‘Octoroon Odalisques’. 1905 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Dec. 817/1 These dingies will cheat you out of the gold in your teeth if you don't understand their ways. 1945 St. C. Drake & H. R. Cayton Black Metropolis x. 267 Epithets like ‘nigger’, ‘darky’, ‘shine’, ‘smoke’, ‘spade’, ‘dingy’,..used as short-cut symbols to express all the contempt concentrated in the popular estimate of the Negro. Compounds C1. a. Modifying colour words to form nouns and adjectives, indicating a dull, drab, or dirty shade, as in dingy grey, dingy white, etc. ΚΠ 1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. v. 175 This Seed is a little crooked, adorn'd with a tuft nine or ten lines long, of a dingy white approaching to red, pretty dry and brittle, consisting of a dozen hairs. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 56 The smoaky and dingy black are easily distinguishable in it. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 28 He wore a pair of dingy-white stockinet pantaloons. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 66/3 (advt.) Turn your back on dingy rusts and ‘standard’ greens that ‘go with everything’. 2005 Express & Echo (Exeter) (Nexis) 11 Jan. 12 Now, rather than being a dingy grey, the kitchen has a pristine white ceiling and woodwork and the walls are a tasteful pale lavender. b. Forming names of butterflies, moths, or caterpillars that are drab in colour (typically grey or brown). ΚΠ 1766 M. Harris Aurelian 73 Dingey Skipper. This Butterfly appears fresh the sixth of May; they fly very low over the tops of the grass; I don't perceive them to be fond of any place in particular. 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 426 (table) [Botys] glabralis. The dingy Pearl. 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 142 The Dingy Wave..appears in June. 1905 Tenth Ann. Rep. Illinois Farmers' Inst. 281 The dingy cutworm is one of the commonest species, especially in corn, where it shares with the greasy cutworm the principal injury to that crop. 1908 R. South Moths Brit. Isles II. 8 The Dingy Shears (Dyschorista fissipuncta). 1955 E. B. Ford Moths v. 70 The Dingy Footman, Eilema griseola Hb...is usually of a light greyish shade. 1970 L. G. Higgins & N. D. Riley Butterflies of Brit. & Europe 331 Erynnis tages Dingy Skipper. 2016 M. F. Braby Compl. Field Guide Butterflies Austral. (ed. 2) 98 Dingy Grass-skipper males have a conspicuous, oblique, black sex-brand compared to Bright Shield-skipper males. c. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘that has (a) dingy ——’, by combining with a noun + -ed, as dingy-coloured, dingy-walled, etc. ΚΠ ?1783 J. Edwards Direct. Composition Telescopes 7 The Acid contained in the Air, by acting upon it, extracts the Copper from the Tin, and turns the Metal into a dirty or dingy colored Speculum. 1872 Appletons' Jrnl. 8 June 637/3 My attention was first led up that dingy-walled side-street by a picturesque domestic scene upon the curb-stone at the corner. 1920 H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 201 Narrow and dingy-spirited specialists. 2019 J. Naremore Film Noir: Very Short Introd. ii. 30 [Graham] Greene's entertainments take place in what reviewers called ‘Greeneland’, a world of dingy-roomed houses, canned fish, and drooping aspidistras. C2. dingy-looking adj. having a dull, drab, or dirty appearance. ΚΠ 1798 W. F. Mavor Brit. Tourists V. 150 They reached the dingy-looking town of Pont-y-Pool. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 45 The church is a dingy-looking edifice. 2000 Sunday Mirror (Nexis) 5 Nov. (Features section) 3 Brighten up those dull, dark days (and any dingy-looking room) with this fab string of fairy lights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). dingyadj.² Brit. /ˈdɪŋi/, U.S. /ˈdɪŋi/ Forms: 1900s– dingey, 1900s– dingie, 1900s– dingy. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ding int., -y suffix¹. Etymology: Apparently < ding int. + -y suffix¹. Compare ding-a-ling adj. and later ding-a-ling n. 2.Perhaps compare also later ding n.⁷, ding-dong n. 5, and dingbat n. 3a. colloquial (originally and chiefly North American). Mad, crazy, insane. Also (and in earliest use) to go dingy on: to be infatuated or in love with. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)] loveOE paramoura1500 to love with1597 to be sweet on (upon)1740 to be cracked about or on1874 to be stuck on1878 mash1881 to be shook on1888 to go dingy on1904 to fall for ——1906 lurve1908 to have or get a crush on1913 to be soppy on1918 to have a pash for (or on)1922 to have a case on1928 to be queer for1941 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with woodc725 woodsekc890 giddyc1000 out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000 witlessc1000 brainsickOE amadc1225 lunaticc1290 madc1330 sickc1340 brain-wooda1375 out of one's minda1387 frenetica1398 fonda1400 formada1400 unwisea1400 brainc1400 unwholec1400 alienate?a1425 brainless1434 distract of one's wits1470 madfula1475 furious1475 distract1481 fro oneself1483 beside oneself1490 beside one's patience1490 dementa1500 red-wood?1507 extraught1509 misminded1509 peevish1523 bedlam-ripe1525 straughta1529 fanatic1533 bedlama1535 daft1540 unsounda1547 stark raving (also staring) mad1548 distraughted1572 insane1575 acrazeda1577 past oneself1576 frenzy1577 poll-mad1577 out of one's senses1580 maddeda1586 frenetical1588 distempered1593 distraught1597 crazed1599 diswitted1599 idle-headed1599 lymphatical1603 extract1608 madling1608 distracteda1616 informala1616 far gone1616 crazy1617 March mada1625 non compos mentis1628 brain-crazed1632 demented1632 crack-brained1634 arreptitiousa1641 dementate1640 dementated1650 brain-crackeda1652 insaniated1652 exsensed1654 bedlam-witteda1657 lymphatic1656 mad-like1679 dementative1685 non compos1699 beside one's gravity1716 hyte1720 lymphated1727 out of one's head1733 maddened1735 swivel-eyed1758 wrong1765 brainsickly1770 fatuous1773 derangedc1790 alienated1793 shake-brained1793 crack-headed1796 flighty1802 wowf1802 doitrified1808 phrenesiac1814 bedlamite1815 mad-braineda1822 fey1823 bedlamitish1824 skire1825 beside one's wits1827 as mad as a hatter1829 crazied1842 off one's head1842 bemadded1850 loco1852 off one's nut1858 off his chump1864 unsane1867 meshuga1868 non-sane1868 loony1872 bee-headed1879 off one's onion1881 off one's base1882 (to go) off one's dot1883 locoed1885 screwy1887 off one's rocker1890 balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891 meshuggener1892 nutty1892 buggy1893 bughouse1894 off one's pannikin1894 ratty1895 off one's trolley1896 batchy1898 twisted1900 batsc1901 batty1903 dippy1903 bugs1904 dingy1904 up the (also a) pole1904 nut1906 nuts1908 nutty as a fruitcake1911 bugged1920 potty1920 cuckoo1923 nutsy1923 puggled1923 blah1924 détraqué1925 doolally1925 off one's rocket1925 puggle1925 mental1927 phooey1927 crackers1928 squirrelly1928 over the edge1929 round the bend1929 lakes1934 ding-a-ling1935 wacky1935 screwball1936 dingbats1937 Asiatic1938 parlatic1941 troppo1941 up the creek1941 screwed-up1943 bonkers1945 psychological1952 out to lunch1955 starkers1956 off (one's) squiff1960 round the twist1960 yampy1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 out of one's skull1967 whacked out1969 batshit1971 woo-woo1971 nutso1973 out of (one's) gourd1977 wacko1977 off one's meds1986 1904 Rock Island (Illinois) Argus 7 Oct. (Last ed.) 5/3 She said she had gone dingy on a colored man.., and that they used to hold hands..while her baby told how much he liked her. 1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight xv. 304 He's a little dingy. I think he's gonna stab somebody before too long. 2020 @YouBusyLesbian 1 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 1 Sept. 2020) I love how because therapists can't really say ‘crazy’ they're like ‘Yeah it makes us go a bit bonkers,..a little dingy, a tad fruity, a bit nutty.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹n.1656adj.²1904
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