adj
Meaning 1
Closely fought.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal, not-comparable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ding-dong
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪŋˌdɒŋ/
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General-American: /ˈdɪŋˌdɔŋ/
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cot-caught-merger: /ˈdɪŋˌdɑŋ/
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Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: D IH1 NG D AO1 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
One of several sounds that might be made by a bell.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonyms: ding-a-ling, ring-a-ding, ringaling, tingaling
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ding-a-ling, ring-a-ding, ringaling, tingaling
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A woman's breast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: assets, babylons, balloons, baps, badonkers, bangers, bazongas, bazookas, bazoombas, bazooms, bewbs, bobas, booba, boobage, boobs, boobers, boobies, boosies, bosom, breasts, breasticles, breasties, bristols, bubby, bubs, bust, calcium cannons, cans, cantaloupes, casabas, charlies, chebs, chesticles, chest melons, chichis, coconuts, diddy, ding-dongs, dirty pillows, double Ds, dugs, frontage, front bumpers, funbags, gazongas, girls, globes, grapefruits, headlights, honkers, hooters, itty-bittys, jahoobies, jigglies, jubblies, jugs, kazooms, knockers, lady lumps, love pillows, mammaries, mammary glands, mammas, maracas, megaboobs, melons, milkbags, milk jugs, milkers, mommy milkers, money makers, mountain [⇒ thesaurus]s, norks, oppai, paps, pair, personality, puppies, rack, sweater puppies, tatas, teats, tiddies, tits, titters, titties, threepenny bits, top bollocks, torpedos, twin peaks, twins, udders, waps, watermelons, yabos, zoomers
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ding-a-ling, schlong, anaconda, baloney pony, bald-headed hermit, banana, birdie, bobby, boonga, cack, choad, choda, chode, chopper, cigar, cock, corey, crank, cucumber, custard launcher, D, dick, dicklet, diddle, diddly, dingaling, ding-dong, dinger, dingle, dingus, dingy, dink, dinkle, dipstick, dirk, disco stick, dog bone, dong, donger, Donkey Kong, doodle, dork, down, fire hose, fuckpole, gherkin, hairy canary, hammer, hog, hot dog, hot rod, hoo-hoo, hooter, it, jade stalk, jamoke, jigger, jimmy, job, jock, johnson, John Thomas, joint, Jonathan, joystick, kielbasa, knob, lad, langer, lingam, love muscle, love stick, love truncheon, love sausage, love wand, machine, magnum, Master John Goodfellow, male member, manhood, man-meat, meat, meat puppet, meat rod, meat scepter, meatstick, meat stick, member, membrum virile, nature's scythe, nob, old chap, old fellow, one-eyed trouser snake, organ, package, pecker, peen, peener, pee-pee, pee-wee, pego, penis, Percy, peter, phallus, pickle, piece, piece of pork, pike, pillicock, pingas, pink cigar, pink oboe, pintle, pipe, pisser, piston, pizzle, plonker, pork sword, prick, pud, purple-headed yogurt slinger, putz, p-word, python, ramrod, rape tool, rod, root, rutter, salami, sausage, schmuck, sex tool, shaft, shlong, shmekl (q, colloquial, Yiddish), short arm, skin flute, snake, snausage, spitstick, stem, stretcher, sucker, swipe, tadger, tagger, tail, tallywhacker, tarse, thing, thingy, third leg, tic tac, todger, tool, trouser monkey, trouser snake, truncheon, tube steak, unit, virile member, wang, weapon, wee-wee, weenie, weeny, whang, wick, widgie, widdler, wiener, willie, willy, wingwang, winkle, winky, yard, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A fight, an argument; a set-to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: affray, dust-up, fight, fracas, kerfuffle, rixation, ruckus, set to, set-to, stoush
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
An idiot.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: ding-a-ling, dingbat, addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead, berk, bimbo, birdbrain, blockhead, blubberbrain, bonehead, Boeotian, boob, bozo, brainlet, brickhead, bubblehead, bubble brain, bufflehead, buffoon, Charlie, chowderhead, chucklehead, chump, cittern-head, clod, clodpate, clot, clown, crackhead, cretin, cuckoo, deadhead, dimbo, dim bulb, dimbus, dimwit, ding dong, dingleberry, dingwad, dip, dipstick, doldrum, dolt, donut, doodle, doof, doofoid, doofus, dope, dork, drivel, drongo, drool bucket, dullard, dumb bunny, dumbbell, dumb cluck, dumbhead, dumble, dumbling, dumbnut, dumbo, dummkopf, dummy, dunce, dunderhead, dunderpate, eejit, fathead, featherbrain, fenderhead, fleabrain, fool, fopdoodle, galoot, gimboid, gomer, gonk, goober, goof, goofball, goofy, goon, goose, goosecap, gorbuson, gudgeon, halfwit, ha'porth, hammerhead, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, inbred, jackaninny, jellybrain, jerk, juggins, jughead, knothead, knucklehead, lackwit, lamebrain, log, loggerhead, lummox, lunk, lunkhead, maroon, meatball, meathead, mental midget, mome, momo, mongoloid, mongtard, monkey, moron, mouth breather, muggins, mushhead, muttonhead, mutt, nimrod, nincompoop, ninny, ninnyhammer, nit, nitwit, noddy, noodlehead, numbskull, oaf, peabrain, peagoose, pillock, pigwidgeon, pinhead, plank, plonker, prat, put, putz, retard, sap, saphead, schmo, silly, simp, simpleton, smooth brain, snapperhead, sot, space cadet, spanner, stupe, stupid, stupid-head, tard, thickhead, thickskull, thicko, tomfool, tonto, toolbox, tosspot, turkey, twit, wally, wantwit, wazzer, wazzock, witless wonder, yo-yo, zany, Vulgar:, ass, assclown, asshat, asshead, asstard, asswipe, buttbreath, dildo, dipshit, donkey dick, Alternative spelling of dumbass., dumbfuck, dumbfucker, dumbshit, farthead, fuck-knuckle, fucktard, fuckwit, jackass, peckerhead, shitbrain, shithead, shitneck, shitwit, twat
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To ring with two tones, like a bell swinging back and forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
the noise made by a bell
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: noise
History
Etymology
Mid 16th century, imitative of the alternate chimes of a bell. For sense of penis, compare Saterland Frisian Ding (“penis”), German Low German Dings (“penis”), English thing.