Definitions for dinghy

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dinghy din·ghy

Spelling: [ding-gee]

IPA: /ˈdɪŋ gi/

Dinghy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in dinghy (dghiny).

Definitions for dinghy

noun

1. any small boat designed as a tender or lifeboat, especially a small ship's boat, rowed, sailed, or driven by a motor.
2. a boat used by warships, having four single-banked oars and a spritsail.
3. any of various rowing or sailing boats used in sheltered waters along the Indian coasts to transport passengers and freight.
4. an inflatable life raft.

Origin of dinghy

1785-95; Bengali diṅgi, Hindi ḍiṅgī, diminutive of ḍiṅgā boat

Examples for dinghy

Then, with a start, he remembered his own dinghy, and how it would betray him.

First, as companies go, Carnival is more like an aircraft carrier than a dinghy.

We gave way with a vigour that seemed to lift the dinghy out of the water.

We in the dinghy, as well as those on board, were listening anxiously.

In the uproar forward, Madden heard the cries: "Th' dinghy's swamped!"

A man in the stern of the dinghy groaned, and slumped down into the bottom.

Then somebody who had a dinghy that he did not want asked her if she would like to have a boat.

Officials said they believed Wood slipped off the yacht when she went on deck to reattach a dinghy that came loose.

Madden followed, trusting not to hit the dinghy and kill himself.

Greer moved instantly to the rope ladder where the dinghy was tied.