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/dɪŋ-dɔŋ/ Listen

noun

ding-dong, dingdong n.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

(Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

A stupid or foolish person; used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. (slang)

Synonyms: ding-a-ling, doofus.

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Etymology of 'Ding-dong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ding-dong" Quotes from Famous Books

... overlap at the saddle-flap, and yet be loo'd on the tape: And it all depends upon changing ends, how a seven-year-old will shape; It was tack and tack to the Lepe and back—a fair ding-dong to the Ridge, And he led by his forward canvas yet as we ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... up on that chair, in the open street and, as if she were doing the most natural thing in the world, she begins ringing that dinner bell. Naturally people stop and stare and draw nearer. Ernestine tells me that Battersea has got so used now to the ding-dong and to associating it with "our meeting," that as far off as they hear it the inhabitants say, "It's the Suffragettes! Come along!" and from one street and another the people emerge laughing and running. Of course as soon as there is a little ...

— The Convert • Elizabeth Robins

... over with a groan. Fortunately, no bones were broken, and the load was replaced. But we were off the road, and a search was begun with lights to find the beaten path. Footsore and hungry, with an almost intolerable thirst, we trudged along till morning, to the ding-dong, ding-dong of the deep-toned camel-bells. Finally we reached a sluggish river, but did not dare to satisfy our thirst, except by washing out our mouths, and by taking occasional swallows, with long intervals of rest, in one of which we fell asleep from sheer exhaustion. When we awoke the midday ...

— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben

... the bonny cells of Bedlam, Ere I was ane-and-twenty, I had hempen bracelets strong, And merry whips, ding-dong, And ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

... as soon as I intended. I stayed for the night, while the wind and the rat and the sash and the window-bolt played a ding-dong "hundred and fifty up." Then the wind ran out and the billiards stopped, and I felt that I had ruined my one ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

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