dingus

參見：Dingus

英語

其他形式

dinges

詞源

可能有多個詞源。部分借自荷蘭語 dinges (「玩意，東西」)、ding (「東西」)。考慮到其在南非的使用，可能也部分借自南非荷蘭語。拼寫dingus是調整了原詞形，使其形似帶有後綴-us的拉丁語單詞。

發音

國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdɪŋɡəs/
（美國）音頻： (檔案)
韻部：-ɪŋɡəs

名詞

dingus (複數 dinguses)

(非正式，加拿大、美國，南非) 玩意，東西，東東
近義詞：thingamajig；亦參見Thesaurus:thingy
- 1879, George Wilbur Peck, Peck's Fun, Being Extracts from the "La Crosse Sun," and "Peck's Sun," Milwaukee:
  "If anybody should come in, and catch you with your breeches, as it were, down on the floor, all you have to do is to drink the water, wrap the rubber dingus around you, and tell them to 「lay on Macduff.」
- 1921年12月31日, 「WLK」, 出自 The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, Bloominton, Indianapolis, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 出版於 1994, →ISBN，第 1399 頁，第 2 列:
  WLK. First radio station. On December 31, 1921, local engineer Francis F. Hamilton's radio station, 9ZJ, signed on with an address from Mayor Samuel (Lew) Shank。Broadcasting from Hamilton's garage at 2011 North Alabama Street, Shank made the city's first radio blooper: "Hamilton, do you mean to tell me that people can actually hear me over that damn' dingus?"
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- 1929, Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest:
  "He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration."
- 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin 2010, p. 29:
  I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
- 1979, Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol, Penguin 2001, p. 241:
  『Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?
- c. 2010, Van's Aircraft, RV-12 Plans, p. 5-30:
  "Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.」
(非正式，加拿大、美國) 笨蛋，傻子
近義詞：doofus

I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus.
我又把鑰匙弄丟了，現在我覺得自己真蠢。
(俚語，粗俗) 雞巴
近義詞：dink；亦參見Thesaurus:penis
- 1970, Don Tracy, The Last Boat Out of Cincinnati, Trident Press, 出版於 1970, →ISBN，第 74 頁:
  "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess. […]
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- 2015, Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight, 角色 Major Marquis Warren（Samuel L. Jackson）:
  And Chester Charles Smithers sucked on that warm black dingus for as long as he could.
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- 2018, Tom Gammill and Max Pross, 3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage, 角色 Bart Simpson（Nancy Cartwright）:
  How come you can say dink when you're talking about your jobs but I can't say dink when I'm talking about my dingus?
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異序詞

gnudis, gundis, undigs