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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dingdong \ding"dong'\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, noun [See {Ding}.]
1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. [slang]
Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ding-dong
noun: the noise made by a bell
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dingdong
adverb: heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
verb: go 'ding dong', like a bell [syn: {ding}, {dong}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
114 Moby Thesaurus words for "dingdong": alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, asshole, assiduously, assonance, assonant, belabored, boob, booby, change ringing, chanting, chime, chiming, chink, chump, clang, clanging, clangor, clank, clanking, cliche-ridden, clink, clockwork regularity, constancy, daily round, ding, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dinging, dingle, dong, donging, drone, earnestly, even pace, even tenor, exhaustively, galoot, gong, goof, harping, humdrum, intensely, invariability, jangle, jerk, jerk-off, jingle, jingle-jangle, jinglejangle, jingling, jog-trot, klutz, knell, knelling, labored, monologue, monotone, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, mutt, near rhyme, orderliness, painstakingly, peal, peal ringing, pealing, pitter-patter, prize sap, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, ring, ring changes, ringing, sameliness, sameness, sap, saphead, sawney, schlemiel, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, sound, sound a knell, stale repetition, tedious, tedium, thoroughly, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate, toll, tolling, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, unnecessary repetition, unremittingly, unvariation
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