dingbatty

adj

dingbatty

adj

Etymology From dingbat + -y.

1

Like a dingbat; silly and not very smart.

  • Of course she would involve the police and the football coach and a battery of Mark's dingbatty friends.1999, Antonya Nelson, Nobody's Girl:
  • Then they returned in such a giddy mood that I could have easily mistaken my mother for one of Becky's dingbatty friends.2001, John Fischer, Saint Ben with the Saint's and Angel's Song, page 142:
1 more example
  • Minnie's kind of dingbatty sometimes.2011, Jennifer Jabaley, Crush Control:

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