dinkus.
A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
Meaning & usage
A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.
Where this word comes from
From dinky (“tiny and cute”). The word was coined by an artist on the Australian periodical The Bulletin in the 1920s.
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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.