1.
[syn: ding, dong, dingdong]
ADVERB (1)
1. heartily or earnestly;
- Example: "They fell to work dingdong"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
dingdong
adv 1: heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
v 1: go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: ding, dong,
dingdong]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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