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Definition of Dingbat
1. Noun. A silly empty-headed person. "Yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"
Definition of Dingbat
1. Noun. (informal) A silly or stupid person. ¹
2. Noun. (typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc. ¹
3. Noun. (architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dingbat
1. a typographical ornament [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dingbat
Literary usage of Dingbat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Humorous Sketches and Addresses by John P. Burt (1879)
"His name is Coriolanus dingbat. Like several men who might be mentioned, ...
dingbat is the compound cathartic of that institu- tution. ..."
2. Camp and Trail by Stewart Edward White (1907)
"Now, no matter how your heart may yearn over the Patent dingbat in No. 3, shut
your eyes and resolutely discard the two latter piles. ..."
3. Altova Xslt Accelerated by Altova Online Training, Altova (2005)
"... output a black filled-in circle dingbat, five spaces, and the content of the
list item element as text"- The rule is in an if / then form- lf <listitem> ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"$1.50 Funk & W. dingbat of Arcady, The. Wilkinson, M. $1.50 Macmillan Diplomatic
practice, A guide to. 2 v. Satow, E. Longmans Discerning the times. ..."
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