ding
/dɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.63 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Mike hit the bottom and picked up a little ding on his head."
- "If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board. Here's a rough guide on how to repair them... If the ding is on the rail, run tape across the ding conforming to the rail curve, leaving a gap to pour in resin and make sure it is sealed to prevent resin escaping and forming dribbles."
- "I just got my first ding letter."
- "to ding the book a coit's distance from him"
- "The butcher's axe (like great Alcides' bat) / Dings deadly downe ten thousand thousand flat."
- "If you surf regularly, then you're going to ding your board."
Etymology
From Middle English dingen, dyngen (strong verb), from Old English *dingan (“to ding”), from Proto-West Germanic *dingwan, from Proto-Germanic *dingwaną (“to beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to beat, push”). Related to Old English denġan, denċġan (“to ding, knock, beat, strike”, weak verb) and Old Norse dengja (“to hammer”, weak verb); both from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to beat, hammer, peen”), causative of *dingwaną. Cognate with Icelandic dengja (“to hammer”), Swedish dänga (“to bang, beat”), Danish dænge (“to bang, beat”), German tengeln, dengeln (“to peen”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: dingen, *dingan, *dingwan, *dingwaną, *dʰen-, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪŋ/
- British English: /dɪŋ/