dingbat

Meanings

Plural: dingbats

Noun

• a silly empty-headed person
  • "you would be a dingbat even to try it"
  • "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"
• 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.

Synonyms

affair, bazinga, bizzo, dealie, dealy, dinglehopper, dingus, dohickey, dojigger, dongle, doo-hickey, doober, doodad, doodah, doofer, doohickey, doohickus, doohinkey, doohinkus, doojigger, doovalacky, foo, foobar, frammis, frobnitz, gadget, geegaw, gewgaw, gimmick, gingambob, gingumbob, gismo, gizmo, gubbins, hickey, hodad, hootenanny, jawn, jigger, jimbang, jobber, jobby, joint, junk, kajigger, kludge, MacGuffin, oojamaflip, rebus, rigamajig, shebang, Sorted alphabetically, Sorted by number of Google hits, stuff, thing, thingabob, thingamabob, thingamabobber, thingamafuck, thingamajig, thingamajigger, thingamajiggy, thingie, thingmabob, thingmajig, thingmy, thingo, thingum, thingumabob, thingumajig, thingummabob, thingummajig, thingummy, thingummyjig, thingy, thingymabob, thingymajig, ting, whachacallit, whachamacallit, whaddayacallit, whatchacallit, whatchamacallit, whatchamahoozie, whatdoyoucallit, whatdyecallem, whatnot, whatsaname, whatsis, whatsit, whatsitsname, whiff-whaff, whosiewhatsit, whosit, widget, wossisname, wossname, wotsit, yoke, yokibus

Related Words

ding, dingwad, fleuron, wingding