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]