What is a dingy room?

adjective. A dingy building or place is rather dark and depressing, and perhaps dirty.

What does dingy mean in British slang?

British Dictionary definitions for dingy dingy. / (ˈdɪndʒɪ) / adjective -gier or -giest. lacking light or brightness; drab. dirty; discoloured.

Is dingy a bad word?

dingy Add to list Share. If something is dingy, it’s dirty. If you spend your days as a chimney sweeper, you probably look pretty dingy. The adjective dingy is often, but not always, used to describe one’s clothing or living space.

What is Dingie?

1a : a small boat carried on or towed behind a larger boat as a tender or a lifeboat. b : a small sailboat. 2 : a rubber life raft. 3 : a rowboat or sailboat used to carry passengers or cargo on the coasts of India especially in sheltered waters around the peninsula.

What is a dingy person?

Definition of dingy To be a little bit, ditzy, not all together there. Usually refers to a shallow or not too bright person.

What does cinched it mean?

: to fasten (something, such as a belt or strap) tightly around someone or something. informal : to make (something) certain to happen. See the full definition for cinch in the English Language Learners Dictionary.

What is a dingy woman?

To be a little bit, ditzy, not all together there. Usually refers to a shallow or not too bright person. That chick is dingy. My ex-wife is a little dingy. She thinks chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Is Dingie a word?

Dingie (pronounced with the ‘ing’ as in sing) is a recently recorded addition to Scottish Language Dictionaries’ Word Collection and will be added to the revised editions of our dictionaries. I think the best informal translation would be the colloquial English phrase ‘to knock back’.

Is dingey a word?

noun a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters.

What does raft mean in English?

noun. a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or materials: an inflatable rubber raft. a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating on water.

Is it cinch or sinch?

As verbs the difference between cinch and sinch is that cinch is to bring to certain conclusion while sinch is (transitive|us|western us) to gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle).

What is a ditzy person?

: eccentrically silly, giddy, or inane : dizzy.

What does digny mean?

1 : dirty, unclean dingy fingernails. 2 : shabby, squalid a dingy hotel room.

Is Dingie a Scrabble word?

Yes, dingy is in the scrabble dictionary.

What does dingy mean in Scotland?

DINGIE, DINGY v to rebuff, to ignore, fail to keep a (romantic) appointment. Dingie (pronounced with the ‘ing’ as in sing) is a recently recorded addition to Scottish Language Dictionaries’ Word Collection and will be added to the revised editions of our dictionaries.

How do you spell dingey?

Dinghy (pronounced “dihng-ee”; rhymes with stringy) is a noun. It means a small, motorized, often inflatable boat used to come ashore from a larger boat. Dingy (pronounced “dihn-jee”; rhymes with stingy) is an adjective. It describes something dark, dirty, rancid, or moldy.

Is dingey a Scrabble word?

DINGEY is a valid scrabble word.

What does ameliorative mean?

transitive verb. : to make better or more tolerable medicine to ameliorate the pain. intransitive verb. : to grow better.