dingbat.
A silly, crazy or stupid person.
Meaning & usage
A silly, crazy or stupid person.
A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.
A kind of word puzzle involving pictures or typography that hint at the solution.
Anything that can be thrown or swung with force against something else.
A small device or gadget, the correct term for which is forgotten or unknown.
Where this word comes from
Unknown, US mid 19th century. The word-puzzle sense comes from the board game Dingbats, which is based on these puzzles. In the sense of a miscellaneous gadget, probably influenced by dingus or its etyma.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.