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ringie dingie

ringie dingie is the alternative form of ringy-dingy.

Meaning of ringy-dingy

Noun

ringy-dingy (plural ringy-dingies)

  1. (colloquial) A telephone ring.
    • I stumbled to my car to call the barn owner. After many ringy-dingies, I gave up.1994 September 20, Linda Ballou, “BODY WATCH : Twice Stung, Thrice Shy […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on...
  2. (colloquial) A call; a ring (an instance of calling someone on the telephone).
    • Andrew Vautier made a ringy-dingy...
      > Give me a call!
      Give me a house!1996 April 16, Puter, “(no subject)”, in alt.romance.chat (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Oct 2025

Forms of ringie dingie

pluralringie dingies

Origin of ringie dingie

From rhyming ring and ding with -ie.

Questions about ringie dingie

What is ringie dingie the alternative form of?
Ringie dingie is the alternative form of ringy-dingy.

Words near ringie dingie in the dictionary

  1. ringhole
  2. ringholes
  3. ringiculid
  4. ringiculids
  5. ringie
  6. ringie dingie
  7. ringie dingies
  8. ringie-dingie
  9. ringie-dingies
  10. ringies
  11. ringiest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ringie dingie (page history and authors); ringy-dingy (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.

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