See dingy on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1997, Frederick Barthelme, chapter 6, in Bob the Gambler, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 63:",
"text": "I love it when they hit. You know the sound when they hit? That dingy sound, it’s like faster, and contained somehow? That’s a great sound. Happens like a fraction of a second before you know what you’ve hit, before you figure it out.",
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"ref": "[2008?], Colin Jacks, chapter IX, in The Manikin Textbook, Jamaica Plain, Mass.: Mister Records, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 214:",
"text": "I remember we had a small electronic toy that had hot lines and made dingy sounds where you tried to eat all the pellets before the boxes with yellow inside them got you. Father said this was one of the first toys ever to be made and we were awe-struck by it.",
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"ref": "2012, Darrell Sroufe, “Modernized Newfangled Gizmos & Gadgets”, in Howdy Folks! I’m Fuster Buskins!, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 134:",
"text": "They was a button on that thar computer what said ‘Enter’. I pushed it ’cause I figgered it must be a doorbell. It didn’t make no dingy sound though.",
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"Resembling or characteristic of a ding."
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"(informal, rare) Resembling or characteristic of a ding."
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