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dingbatty

dingbatty adjective: like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.

Adjective

dingbatty (comparative more dingbatty, superlative most dingbatty)

  1. Like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.
    • Of course she would involve the police and the football coach and a battery of Mark's dingbatty friends.1999, Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl
    • Then they returned in such a giddy mood that I could have easily mistaken my mother for one of Becky's dingbatty friends.2001, John Fischer, Saint Ben with the Saint's and Angel's Song, page 142

Forms of dingbatty

comparativemore dingbatty
superlativemost dingbatty

Origin of dingbatty

From dingbat + -y.

Questions about dingbatty

What does dingbatty mean?
Dingbatty means like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.
What part of speech is dingbatty?
Dingbatty is an adjective.

Words near dingbatty in the dictionary

  1. dingbat
  2. dingbats
  3. dingbatter
  4. dingbatters
  5. dingbattery
  6. dingbatty
  7. Dingbian
  8. Dingcheng
  9. Dingcun
  10. dingdong
  11. dingdong theory

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