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/dɪŋ-dɔŋ/ Listen

noun

ding-dong, dingdong n.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

(Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

A stupid or foolish person; used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. (slang)

Synonyms: ding-a-ling, doofus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ding-dong" Quotes from Famous Books

... worthy of Dresden!" says Mr. Musgrave, throwing back his head and looking up at the pale blue sultriness above our heads—the waveless, stormless ether sea—as we pace along, with the church-bells' measured ding-dong in our ears, and the cool ...

— Nancy - A Novel • Rhoda Broughton

... sang out Corcoran, and with a commonplace ding-dong of the bell, and an every-day hiss of steam, which seemed, somehow, out of keeping with the fearful and unprecedented exigency now upon us, we moved out through the yards, jolting over the frogs, out upon the main line; and soon began to feel a cheering ...

— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... family generally started off for service almost directly after the bells began to ring. On the following Sunday morning, however, they were considerably perplexed. The familiar "ding-dong, ding-dong" which ought to have been pealing forth was not to be heard. They listened in vain, and consulted all the clocks ...

— The Luckiest Girl in the School • Angela Brazil

... and nigh that her prophetic ear could, in fancy, catch the noise of it, hear the murmur of the villagers as she came out of church, imagine the jangle of the three thin-toned Hintock bells. The dialogues seemed to grow louder, and the ding-ding-dong of those three crazed bells more persistent. She awoke: ...

— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy

... of Bedlam, Ere I was ane-and-twenty, I had hempen bracelets strong, And merry whips, ding-dong, And prayer and ...

— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

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