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DINGDONG
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they dingdong ... he / she / it dingdongs
Past simple: dingdonged
Past participle: dingdonged
-ing form: dingdonging
Sense 1
Meaning:
Go 'ding dong', like a bell
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "dingdong" is one way to...):
peal; ring (sound loudly and sonorously)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Heartily or earnestly
Example:
They fell to work dingdong
Classified under:
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
