See ding-dong in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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},
{
"form": "ding-donged",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "ding-dong (third-person singular simple present ding-dongs, present participle ding-donging, simple past and past participle ding-donged)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To ring with two tones, like a bell swinging back and forth."
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To ring with two tones, like a bell swinging back and forth."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-ding-dong.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b2/En-au-ding-dong.ogg/En-au-ding-dong.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b2/En-au-ding-dong.ogg"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "ding dong"
},
{
"word": "dingdong"
}
],
"word": "ding-dong"
}
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