rinky-dinkn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrɪŋkɪdɪŋk/, U.S.

/ˈrɪŋkiˌdɪŋk/

Forms:

α. 1800s– rinkey-dink, 1800s– rinky-dink.

β. 1900s– rinkey-dinkey, 1900s– rinky-dinky.

γ. 1900s– rink-dink.

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare later (in different sense) ricky-tick n., rinky-tink adj.In β. forms with alteration of the second element after the first, and in γ. forms with alteration of the first element after the second; in both cases to form a rhyming compound.

slang (chiefly U.S.).

A. n.

1. With the. A deception, a swindle; ill-treatment. Chiefly in to give (someone) the rinky-dink and variants. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle

defraud1362

deceivec1380

plucka1500

lurch1530

defeata1538

souse1545

lick1548

wipe1549

fraud1563

use1564

cozen1573

nick1576

verse1591

rooka1595

trim1600

skelder1602

firk1604

dry-shave1620

fiddle1630

nose1637

foista1640

doa1642

sharka1650

chouse1654

burn1655

bilk1672

under-enter1692

sharp1699

stick1699

finger1709

roguea1714

fling1749

swindle1773

jink1777

queer1778

to do over1781

jump1789

mace1790

chisel1808

slang1812

bucket1819

to clean out1819

give it1819

to put in the hole1819

ramp1819

sting1819

victimize1839

financier1840

gum1840

snakea1861

to take down1865

verneuk1871

bunco1875

rush1875

gyp1879

salt1882

daddle1883

work1884

to have (one) on toast1886

slip1890

to do (a person) in the eye1891

sugar1892

flay1893

to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895

con1896

pad1897

screw1900

short-change1903

to do in1906

window dress1913

ream1914

twist1914

clean1915

rim1918

tweedle1925

hype1926

clip1927

take1927

gazump1928

yentz1930

promote1931

to take (someone) to the cleaners1932

to carve up1933

chizz1948

stiff1950

scam1963

to rip off1969

to stitch up1970

skunk1971

to steal (someone) blind1974

diddle-

1895 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 10 Dec. 4/1 Von Koeller gets what, in the chaste language in use under the lindens, is termed the rinky dink.

1899 Verdict 23 Jan. 12/1 He's a pauper, see! an' he gets d' razzle dazzle an' d' gran' rinky dink.

1905 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House (1906) 336 That old gal kin go some in a mix-up, too. I seen her an' a couple dames who tries to hand her the rinky-dink go to the floor, an' Maggie beat 'em up scand'lous.

1922 J. A. Dunn Man Trap i. 8 Mining corporations with a lot of stockholders and a few of those liable at any moment to hand you the rinky-dink and freeze you out by due process of legal indifference toward small-fry claimants.

1942 Harper's Bazaar July 21/2 Don't give me the rinkydink.

1971 J. D. Horan Blue Messiah 458 You and Joe screwed us, Frank! Ya gave us the old rinky dink right up the ass!

2002 M. T. Sullivan Labyrinth 222 ‘At midnight tomorrow..they go through the rinky-dink.’ ‘Rinky-dink?’ the marshal said. ‘It's an old-time caving term for giving someone the runaround.’

a. An unsuccessful, unimportant, or despised person.attributive in quot. 1900.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure

botch1769

non-starter1839

schlemiel1868

also-ran1896

rinky-dink1900

flivver1915

wash-out1918

jabroni1919

bust1922

blowout1925

dropout1930

zilch1933

sad sack1943

loser1955

1900 Harper's Mag. June 102/1 ‘I gets de rinky-dink shake from de gang for fair’, was the exact way in which Jack explained the disesteem into which he had fallen.

1959 J. Brosnan Long Season 116 After the regulars played three innings, the rink-dinks took over, happy to get into a game, finally.

1970 Harper's Mag. Apr. 38/2 If the Senate Majority Leader's blood brother couldn't get through, how was a rinky-dink to make connections?

2004 E. Lambright Sweethearts of Soul 115 Those two..scouts from Music Man..were interested in us,..and here yall are getting ready to sign away our futures with those little rinky-dinks, Chance and Lane.

b. Something that is worn out or worthless; something regarded as tasteless or trashy.In quot. 1951: spec. a cheap place of entertainment.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > cheap place of entertainment

guinguette1779

tingle-tangle1873

honky-tonk1889

midway1893

juke1935

tonk1937

rinky-dink1951

1951 Atlantic Mar. 80/1 I think of Sweet Mama Stringbean as she was called when she played the Rinky-dinks for $25 a week.

1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 65 Rinky-dink..n, something that is cheap or worn out. ‘His car is a real rinky-dink.’

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Mar. 59/1 The N.H.L. was administered in such a haphazard way that the league continued to carry with it the unmistakable aroma of the rinky-dink.

2006 Philadelphia Inquirer 6 Aug. h1/1 While she waits for her record to drop on Aug. 15,..Joanna's engagements range from the sublime to the rinky-dink.

c. Antiquated or worthless material; rubbish, ‘tat’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > falling out of use > that which is obsolete

obsolete1641

obsoletism1799

razzmatazz1936

rinky-dink1956

1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz 147 Rinky-dink is broken-down stuff.

1969 New Yorker 1 Nov. 6/2 Red Garter..eighteen-nineties rinky-dink, complete with fire engine, but the banjo band is above average.

B. adj.

1. Second-rate; small time; tasteless, contemptible.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless

naughteOE

unworthc960

nought worthOE

unworthya1240

vaina1300

lewd1362

base?1510

to be nothing toc1520

stark naught1528

nothing worth1535

worthilessa1542

draffish1543

baggage1548

dunghill?1555

valureless1563

toyish1572

worthless1573

out (forth) of door (also doors)1574

leaden1577

riff-raff1577

drafty1582

fecklessc1586

dudgeon?1589

nought-worth1589

tenpenny1592

wanwordy?a1595

shotten herring1598

nugatory1603

unvalued1604

priceless1614

unvaluable1615

valuelessa1616

waste1616

trashya1620

draffy1624

stramineous1624

invaluable1640

roly-poly?1645

nugatorious1646

perquisquilian1647

niffling1649

lazy1671

wanworth1724

little wortha1754

flimsy1756

waff1788

null1790

nothingy1801

nothingly1802

twopenny-halfpenny1809

not worth a flaw1810

garbage1817

peanut1836

duffing1839

trash1843

no-account1845

no-count1851

punky1859

rummagy1872

junky1880

skilligalee1883

footle1894

punk1896

wherry-go-nimble1901

junk1908

rinky-dink1913

schlock1916

tripe1927

duff1938

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

expendable1942

(strictly) for the birds1943

tripey1955

schlocky1960

naff1964

dipshit1968

cack1978

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete

oldOE

outworna1522

stale1550

obsolete1579

overgone1581

overworn1603

disused1611

exolete1611

absoletea1613

worn-out1612

outdated1616

lapsed1667

exploded1709

supersededa1831

rinky-dink1913

1913 Wells Fargo Messenger 1 105/3 She did not care to ruin her life as a Sunday supplement feature to some rinky-dinky foreign count.

1951 E. Waters His Eye is on Sparrow vi. 77 Of all those rinky-dink dumps I played, nothing was worse than the Monogram Theatre in Chicago.

1979 Fortune 15 Jan. 5 Facet [was]..a rinky-dink outfit with no real resources and not much to offer.

1989 J. W. Hall Trop. Freeze 70 I've seen your reports, bribery, extortion, conspiracy. Some of it is maybe a little dirty,..and a trifle rinky-dink, but still, it's a case.

1997 R. Hardy Sammy: Dallas Detective xiii. 158 Shannon wouldn't..stay with a rinky-dink production like this if she actually got a call from a big shot in New York, would she?

2. Old-fashioned, dated; worn, shabby.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated

moth-frettenOE

antiquate?a1425

antique?1532

rusty1549

moth-eaten1551

musty1575

worm-eatenc1575

overyear1584

out of date1589

old-fashioned1592

out of date1592

worm-eat1597

old-fashion1599

ancient1601

outdated1616

out-of-fashion1623

over-aged1623

superannuateda1634

thorough-old1639

overdateda1641

trunk-hosea1643

antiquitated1645

antiquated1654

out-of-fashioned1671

unmodern1731

of the old school1749

auld-farrant1750

old-fangled1764

fossila1770

fogram1772

passé1775

unmodernized1775

oxidated1791

moss-covered1792

square-toeda1797

old-fashionable1807

pigtail1817

behind the times1826

slow1827

fossilized1828

rococo1836

antiquish1838

old-timey1850

out of season1850

moss-grown1851

old style1858

antiqued1859

pigtaily1859

prehistoric1859

backdated1862

played1864

fossiled1866

bygone1869

mossy-backed1870

old-worldly1878

past-time1889

outmoded1896

dated1900

brontosaurian1909

antiquey1926

horse-and-buggy1926

vintage1928

Neolithic1934

time-warped1938

demoded1941

steam age1941

hairy1946

old school1946

rinky-dink1946

time warp1954

Palaeolithic1957

retardataire1958

throwback1968

wally1969

antwacky1975

1908 Hampton's Mag. Oct. 534 They just got my rinky, dinky, old fiddle.]

1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues vii. 87 My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels.

2008 S. M. Warren Finding Stefanie i. 17 He'd turned off the highway..hoping for a McDonald's. Those hopes were dashed by the sight of the one-horse rinky-dink spot on the map they'd limped into.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rinky-dink
释义	rinky-dinkn.adj. Brit. /ˈrɪŋkɪdɪŋk/, U.S. /ˈrɪŋkiˌdɪŋk/ Forms: α. 1800s– rinkey-dink, 1800s– rinky-dink. β. 1900s– rinkey-dinkey, 1900s– rinky-dinky. γ. 1900s– rink-dink. Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Compare later (in different sense) ricky-tick n., rinky-tink adj.In β. forms with alteration of the second element after the first, and in γ. forms with alteration of the first element after the second; in both cases to form a rhyming compound. slang (chiefly U.S.). A. n. 1. With the. A deception, a swindle; ill-treatment. Chiefly in to give (someone) the rinky-dink and variants. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle defraud1362 deceivec1380 plucka1500 lurch1530 defeata1538 souse1545 lick1548 wipe1549 fraud1563 use1564 cozen1573 nick1576 verse1591 rooka1595 trim1600 skelder1602 firk1604 dry-shave1620 fiddle1630 nose1637 foista1640 doa1642 sharka1650 chouse1654 burn1655 bilk1672 under-enter1692 sharp1699 stick1699 finger1709 roguea1714 fling1749 swindle1773 jink1777 queer1778 to do over1781 jump1789 mace1790 chisel1808 slang1812 bucket1819 to clean out1819 give it1819 to put in the hole1819 ramp1819 sting1819 victimize1839 financier1840 gum1840 snakea1861 to take down1865 verneuk1871 bunco1875 rush1875 gyp1879 salt1882 daddle1883 work1884 to have (one) on toast1886 slip1890 to do (a person) in the eye1891 sugar1892 flay1893 to give (someone) the rinky-dink1895 con1896 pad1897 screw1900 short-change1903 to do in1906 window dress1913 ream1914 twist1914 clean1915 rim1918 tweedle1925 hype1926 clip1927 take1927 gazump1928 yentz1930 promote1931 to take (someone) to the cleaners1932 to carve up1933 chizz1948 stiff1950 scam1963 to rip off1969 to stitch up1970 skunk1971 to steal (someone) blind1974 diddle- 1895 North Amer. (Philadelphia) 10 Dec. 4/1 Von Koeller gets what, in the chaste language in use under the lindens, is termed the rinky dink. 1899 Verdict 23 Jan. 12/1 He's a pauper, see! an' he gets d' razzle dazzle an' d' gran' rinky dink. 1905 H. Green At Actors' Boarding House (1906) 336 That old gal kin go some in a mix-up, too. I seen her an' a couple dames who tries to hand her the rinky-dink go to the floor, an' Maggie beat 'em up scand'lous. 1922 J. A. Dunn Man Trap i. 8 Mining corporations with a lot of stockholders and a few of those liable at any moment to hand you the rinky-dink and freeze you out by due process of legal indifference toward small-fry claimants. 1942 Harper's Bazaar July 21/2 Don't give me the rinkydink. 1971 J. D. Horan Blue Messiah 458 You and Joe screwed us, Frank! Ya gave us the old rinky dink right up the ass! 2002 M. T. Sullivan Labyrinth 222 ‘At midnight tomorrow..they go through the rinky-dink.’ ‘Rinky-dink?’ the marshal said. ‘It's an old-time caving term for giving someone the runaround.’ 2. a. An unsuccessful, unimportant, or despised person.attributive in quot. 1900. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [noun] > one who or that which is unsuccessful > one who is a failure botch1769 non-starter1839 schlemiel1868 also-ran1896 rinky-dink1900 flivver1915 wash-out1918 jabroni1919 bust1922 blowout1925 dropout1930 zilch1933 sad sack1943 loser1955 1900 Harper's Mag. June 102/1 ‘I gets de rinky-dink shake from de gang for fair’, was the exact way in which Jack explained the disesteem into which he had fallen. 1959 J. Brosnan Long Season 116 After the regulars played three innings, the rink-dinks took over, happy to get into a game, finally. 1970 Harper's Mag. Apr. 38/2 If the Senate Majority Leader's blood brother couldn't get through, how was a rinky-dink to make connections? 2004 E. Lambright Sweethearts of Soul 115 Those two..scouts from Music Man..were interested in us,..and here yall are getting ready to sign away our futures with those little rinky-dinks, Chance and Lane. b. Something that is worn out or worthless; something regarded as tasteless or trashy.In quot. 1951: spec. a cheap place of entertainment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > [noun] > cheap place of entertainment guinguette1779 tingle-tangle1873 honky-tonk1889 midway1893 juke1935 tonk1937 rinky-dink1951 1951 Atlantic Mar. 80/1 I think of Sweet Mama Stringbean as she was called when she played the Rinky-dinks for $25 a week. 1977 Amer. Speech 1975 50 65 Rinky-dink..n, something that is cheap or worn out. ‘His car is a real rinky-dink.’ 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Mar. 59/1 The N.H.L. was administered in such a haphazard way that the league continued to carry with it the unmistakable aroma of the rinky-dink. 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer 6 Aug. h1/1 While she waits for her record to drop on Aug. 15,..Joanna's engagements range from the sublime to the rinky-dink. c. Antiquated or worthless material; rubbish, ‘tat’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [noun] > falling out of use > that which is obsolete obsolete1641 obsoletism1799 razzmatazz1936 rinky-dink1956 1956 S. Longstreet Real Jazz 147 Rinky-dink is broken-down stuff. 1969 New Yorker 1 Nov. 6/2 Red Garter..eighteen-nineties rinky-dink, complete with fire engine, but the banjo band is above average. B. adj. 1. Second-rate; small time; tasteless, contemptible. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > worthless naughteOE unworthc960 nought worthOE unworthya1240 vaina1300 lewd1362 base?1510 to be nothing toc1520 stark naught1528 nothing worth1535 worthilessa1542 draffish1543 baggage1548 dunghill?1555 valureless1563 toyish1572 worthless1573 out (forth) of door (also doors)1574 leaden1577 riff-raff1577 drafty1582 fecklessc1586 dudgeon?1589 nought-worth1589 tenpenny1592 wanwordy?a1595 shotten herring1598 nugatory1603 unvalued1604 priceless1614 unvaluable1615 valuelessa1616 waste1616 trashya1620 draffy1624 stramineous1624 invaluable1640 roly-poly?1645 nugatorious1646 perquisquilian1647 niffling1649 lazy1671 wanworth1724 little wortha1754 flimsy1756 waff1788 null1790 nothingy1801 nothingly1802 twopenny-halfpenny1809 not worth a flaw1810 garbage1817 peanut1836 duffing1839 trash1843 no-account1845 no-count1851 punky1859 rummagy1872 junky1880 skilligalee1883 footle1894 punk1896 wherry-go-nimble1901 junk1908 rinky-dink1913 schlock1916 tripe1927 duff1938 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 expendable1942 (strictly) for the birds1943 tripey1955 schlocky1960 naff1964 dipshit1968 cack1978 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > non-use > [adjective] > fallen out of use or obsolete oldOE outworna1522 stale1550 obsolete1579 overgone1581 overworn1603 disused1611 exolete1611 absoletea1613 worn-out1612 outdated1616 lapsed1667 exploded1709 supersededa1831 rinky-dink1913 1913 Wells Fargo Messenger 1 105/3 She did not care to ruin her life as a Sunday supplement feature to some rinky-dinky foreign count. 1951 E. Waters His Eye is on Sparrow vi. 77 Of all those rinky-dink dumps I played, nothing was worse than the Monogram Theatre in Chicago. 1979 Fortune 15 Jan. 5 Facet [was]..a rinky-dink outfit with no real resources and not much to offer. 1989 J. W. Hall Trop. Freeze 70 I've seen your reports, bribery, extortion, conspiracy. Some of it is maybe a little dirty,..and a trifle rinky-dink, but still, it's a case. 1997 R. Hardy Sammy: Dallas Detective xiii. 158 Shannon wouldn't..stay with a rinky-dink production like this if she actually got a call from a big shot in New York, would she? 2. Old-fashioned, dated; worn, shabby. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 1908 Hampton's Mag. Oct. 534 They just got my rinky, dinky, old fiddle.] 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues vii. 87 My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels. 2008 S. M. Warren Finding Stefanie i. 17 He'd turned off the highway..hoping for a McDonald's. Those hopes were dashed by the sight of the one-horse rinky-dink spot on the map they'd limped into. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1895
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