Ding-dong

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \ding-dong\, n. [See {Ding}.]
     1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic
        body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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
       n : the noise made by a bell

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dingdong
       adv : heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
       v : 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