Definitions for dinguses

dinguses ding·us

Spelling: [ding-uh s]
IPA: /ˈdɪŋ əs/

Dinguses is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 227 anagrams from letters in dinguses (deginssu).

Definitions for dinguses

noun

  1. a gadget, device, or object whose name is unknown or forgotten.

Origin of dinguses

1870-75; Dutch dinges or its source, German Dinges, probably orig. genitive, with partitive value, of Ding thing1

Examples for dinguses

And they think you were eccentric in furnishing this room—they think the broad couch and that Japanese dingus are absurd.

Ive had the dingus apart, and if anybody knows about its insides I do.

The French telephone resembles a dingus for curling the hair.

I wouldn't be puttin' that dingus on my head for all the colleens in Ireland.

To the only woman on earth who sings base enough, they sends this dingus and the organ-grinder.

Miss dingus looked at the small, sandy haired girl with astonishment.

The whistles high frequency waves also awakened Cerberus, the three-headed watch dog, besides actuating The dingus.

This other dingus was undoubtedly a typewriter—and this small gadget on the desk a stapler.

Word Value for dinguses
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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