"dinge" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dingy.",
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      "form": "dinges",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "Dinginess."
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        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:",
          "text": "‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 46:",
          "text": "‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person."
      ],
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          "black",
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        "(US slang, dated, countable) A black person."
      ],
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪnd͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪndʒ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dinge"
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      "word": "dinged-up"
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      "expansion": "Middle English dengen",
      "name": "inh"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "ang",
        "3": "denġan"
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      "expansion": "Old English denġan",
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        "3": "*dangijan"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *dangijan",
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        "3": "*dangijaną",
        "t": "to beat, hit"
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      "name": "inh"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dinges",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dingeing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dinged",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "dinged",
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        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in"
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          "beat",
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        ],
        [
          "indent",
          "indent"
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          "bruise",
          "bruise"
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          "knock",
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        "to flog, as in penance"
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    {
      "ipa": "/dɪnd͡ʒ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪndʒ"
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      "word": "dinge queen"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From dingy.",
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    {
      "form": "dinges",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Dinginess."
      ],
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        [
          "Dinginess",
          "dinginess"
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:",
          "text": "‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 46:",
          "text": "‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person."
      ],
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        "(US slang, dated, countable) A black person."
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    {
      "ipa": "/dɪnd͡ʒ/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪndʒ"
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  "word": "dinge"
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      "word": "dinged-up"
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        "t": "to beat, hit"
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      "name": "inh"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan, from Proto-West Germanic *dangijan, from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hit”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dinges",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "dingeing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "dinged",
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        "participle",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "glosses": [
        "to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in"
      ],
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          "bruise",
          "bruise"
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          "knock",
          "knock"
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        "to flog, as in penance"
      ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/dɪnd͡ʒ/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪndʒ"
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  "word": "dinge"
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