dingy.
Dark, dull.
Meaning & usage
Dark, dull.
Shabby, squalid, uncared-for.
Where this word comes from
From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy (“dirty”), of unknown origin, though probably from Middle English *dingy, dungy, from Old English *dyncgiġ (“covered with dung, dirty”), an umlaut form of duncge, dung (“dung”), equivalent to dung + -y, hence a doublet of dungy.
Resembling or characteristic of a ding (the sound).
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English ding Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English dingy From ding + -y.
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