Dingdong

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To sound with the regularity of the ding-dong of a bell.
  • To assail or pester with a continual succession of complaints, requests, taunts, gibes, or the like. See ding, transitive verb
  • noun. The sound of a bell, or any similar sound of repeated strokes.
  • noun. A device in which two bells of different tone are struck alternately, used in striking the quarter-hours on a clock.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
  • noun. An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
  • noun. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Alternative spelling of ding-dong.
  • noun. An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
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  • noun. the noise made by a bell
  • adverb. heartily or earnestly
  • verb. go `ding dong', like a bell
    • Word Usage
    "Natalie probably coundn't handle that her man's dingdong was showing through his pants."
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    to it ding-dong  
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    ding-dong  
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    noise  peal  ring  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bitching  carding  carillon  contractive  dinning  
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    alliterating  alliteration  alliterative  asshole  assiduously  
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