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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
dinky \dinky\ adjective
1. small and insignificant; shabby or unimpressive; as, he drove to work in a dinky old Volkswagen; we stayed in a dinky little hotel. [informal] [WordNet 1.5]
2. pretty and neat; fashionable or well-dressed; as, what a dinky little hat. [British informal] [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dinky
adjective
1: small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel"
2: (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat"
noun: a small locomotive [syn: {dinkey}] [also: {dinkiest}, {dinkier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "dinky": anal, back-burner, cramped, dispensable, exiguous, half-pint, immaterial, inappreciable, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inessential, inferior, insignificant, irrelevant, knee-high, lesser, limited, little, minor, minute, neat, negligible, nonessential, not vital, one-horse, petit, petite, piddling, pindling, pint-sized, poky, puny, secondary, shipshape, short, sleek, slick, slight, small, small-fry, small-time, smallish, smart, snug, spruce, technical, tidy, tight, trig, trim, two-by-four, unessential, unimpressive, unnoteworthy, well-cared-for, well-groomed
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