dingy
Meaning
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- dark, dull
- shabby, squalid, uncared-for
Synonyms
dirty-minded
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈdɪn.d͡ʒi/
Etymology
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from an unrecorded Middle English *dingy, *düngy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of Old English duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y.
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