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noun

Dinghy, Dingy, Dingey n.

A small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. (Written also dinghey)

A small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor.

A small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.

Synonyms: dory, rowboat.

adjective

Dingy adj. (compar. dingier; superl. dingiest) Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper."

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Etymology of 'Dingy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... shouldered the little trunk that contained his worldly effects, and stalked off to a neighboring hotel, that, from its small proportions, suggested a modest bill. With a highly important man-of-the-world manner he scrawled his name in an illegible, student-like hand on the dingy, dog-eared register. With a gracious, condescending air he ordered the filthy, tobacco-stained porter to take his ...

— Barriers Burned Away • E. P. Roe

... the water in which these cloths are, or should be, washed everyday; rub soap on the towels. Put them in the water; let them stand half an hour or so; then rub them out thoroughly, rinse faithfully, and dry outdoors in clear air and sun, and dish-cloths and towels need never look gray and dingy—a ...

— The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) - The Whole Comprising A Comprehensive Cyclopedia Of Information For - The Home • Mrs. F.L. Gillette

... venturesome Miss Polly nor by her athlete servitor was the episode to be so readily dismissed. Late that afternoon, when the Brewster party were sitting about iced fruit drinks amid the dingy and soiled elegance of the Kast's one private parlor, Mr. Sherwen's card arrived, followed shortly by Mr. Sherwen's immaculate self, creaseless except for one furrow ...

— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... was of three storeys, painted a dingy drab and trimmed with dull green shutters. The restaurant occupied almost all of the street front of the ground floor, a blank, non-committal double doorway at one extreme of its plate-glass windows was seldom open and even ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

... not been, like the dawn stealing in at his window, followed by a burst of sunlight. As the morning enters the stained, foul, dingy places of dissipation, which early in the evening had been the gas-lighted, garish scenes of riot and senseless laughter, and later the fighting ground of all the vile vermin of the night with their uncanny noises—as when, the doors and windows having been at last opened, ...

— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

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