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dingbatty en · ADJ

Etymology

From dingbat + -y.

Meanings

1. Like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.
   • Minnie's kind of dingbatty sometimes. 2011, Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control:
   • Of course she would involve the police and the football coach and a battery of Mark's dingbatty friends. 1999, Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl:
   • Then they returned in such a giddy mood that I could have easily mistaken my mother for one of Becky's dingbatty friends. 2001, John Fischer, Saint Ben with the Saint's and Angel's Song, page 142:

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