Word.ws English Dictionary

dy-no-mite

dy-no-mite interjection: good; great.

Interjection

  1. (slang) Good; great.

Origin of dy-no-mite

From dynamite; made popular by actor and comedian Jimmie Walker in his role as J. J. Evans in the American situation comedy Good Times in the 1970s.

Questions about dy-no-mite

What does dy-no-mite mean?
Dy-no-mite means good; great.
What part of speech is dy-no-mite?
Dy-no-mite is an interjection.

Words near dy-no-mite in the dictionary

  1. DXM
  2. DXpedition
  3. DXpeditions
  4. DXs
  5. dy
  6. dy-no-mite
  7. Dyabarma
  8. dyabilities
  9. dyability
  10. dyable
  11. Dyachok

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dy-no-mite (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-dy-no-mite.ogg.

Cite this entry: “dy-no-mite.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dy-no-mite. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.