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单词 rinky-dink
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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).
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