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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee dingi.] 1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also {dinghey}.] --Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dingy \Din"gy\, a. [Compar. {Dingier}; superl. {Dingiest}.] [Prob. fr dung. Cf {Dungy}.] Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. ``Scraps of dingy paper.'' --Macaulay. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dingy adj 1: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen" [syn: {begrimed}, {grimy}, {grubby}, {grungy}] 2: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied gray of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: {dirty}, {muddied}, {muddy}] 3: depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams [syn: {dismal}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}, {gloomy}, {sorry}]
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