ringy-dingy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I stumbled to my car to call the barn owner. After many ringy-dingies, I gave up."
- "Each time you answered a call, while the caller was still hearing “one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies,” you heard a recording offering four ways to handle the call: “Press 1 to accept, 2 to send to voice mail, 3 to listen in on voice mail, or 4 to accept and record the call.”"
- "Her “first significant wig,” she said, was for Ernestine, the snorting, power-drunk telephone-operator character (“One ringy-dingy!”) made famous on “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In.”"
- "Andrew Vautier made a ringy-dingy... > Give me a call! Give me a house!"
- "Give me a ringy-dingy or a number to call and you'll see!! ;)"
- "I had a pant load of calls on my answering machine today. I truly appreciated Dubya taking time out from his busy war to give me a ringy-dingy."
Etymology
From rhyming ring and ding with -y. Used by comedian Lily Tomlin imitating a telephone operator (“one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies …”).
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: -y