dinky
/ˈdɪŋki/
dinky adjective: tiny and cute; small and attractive.
Adjective
dinky (comparative dinkier, superlative dinkiest)
- Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
- How do you like my hat? That one you had on in church yesterday was real dinky.1915, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “chapter 11”, in Anne of the Island
- Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88
- Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
- They stayed in a dinky hotel room, but they had a great trip.
Noun (1)
dinky (plural dinkies)
Noun (2)
dinky (plural dinkies)
- A person in a relationship with a double income and no kids.
dinky meaning in Malayalam
dinky in Malayalam
- small, little, petite
- തീരെ കൊച്ചായ, ചെറിയ, വലിപ്പംകുറഞ്ഞ, ലഘുവായ, ഒതുങ്ങിയ, ഒതുങ്ങിയ ശരീരമുള്ള
Examples of dinky in a sentence
- I played in the dirt with a small dinky car as the garage held no fascination for a little girl of five.2010, Sharon Wallace, A House Full of Whispers, page 5:
- Look at his dinky little nose,” said Raj with a sweet smile.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
Forms of dinky
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | dinkier |
| superlative | dinkiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | dinkies |
Origin of dinky
1780-90; compare Scots dink (“neatly dressed, trim”) (of obscure origin); sense shift perhaps: trim > dainty > small > insignificant; + -y.
See DINK.
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Questions about dinky
- What does dinky mean?
- Dinky means tiny and cute; small and attractive.
- What is dinky in Malayalam?
- Dinky in Malayalam is തീരെ കൊച്ചായ, ചെറിയ, വലിപ്പംകുറഞ്ഞ. See Dinky meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use dinky in a sentence?
- I played in the dirt with a small dinky car as the garage held no fascination for a little girl of five.
- What part of speech is dinky?
- Dinky can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce dinky?
- Dinky is pronounced /ˈdɪŋki/.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: dinky (page history and authors); dinky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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