Definition of Dingies

1. dingy [n] - See also: dingy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dingies

dingdonged
dingdonging
dingdongs
dinge
dinged
dinged-up
dingers
dinges
dingeses
dingey
dingeys
dinghies
dinghy
dingier
dingies (current term)
dingiest
dingily
dinginess
dinginesses
dinging
dingle
dingle-dangle
dingle runs
dingleberries
dinglehopper
dinglehoppers
dingles
dingo

Literary usage of Dingies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Centennial Supplement to the Sydney Morning Herald: Together with by Sydney Morning Herald (1888)
"About nine years ago the first race for canvas dingies took place. At that time these boats were roughly-built craft, but the encouragement given to them ..."

2. Boating by Walter Bradford Woodgate (1891)
"They also build sailing gigs and dingies, which are usually fitted with a ... Salter of Oxford, for various classes of gigs, dingies, and pleasure skiffs:— ..."

3. The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1888)
"They also build sailing gigs and dingies, which are usually fitted with a ... Salter of Oxford, for various classes of gigs, dingies, and pleasure skiffs ..."

4. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1834)
"Including Cnra- chee and all the ports of the country, there are not perhaps a hundred dingies or sea-vessels belonging to the dominions of the Ameer. ..."

5. The Centennial Supplement to the Sydney Morning Herald: Together with by Sydney Morning Herald (1888)
"About nine years ago the first race for canvas dingies took place. At that time these boats were roughly-built craft, but the encouragement given to them ..."

6. Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and by Henry Yule, Arthur Coke Burnell, William Crooke (1903)
"Propose to the merchants of Mutent ... to bring hither, on the dingies, ... On these larger pieces of water there are usually canoes, or dingies. ..."

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