Dingy is one of those words whose meaning is in the eye of the beholder. My American Heritage dictionary defines it as "Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored. 2. Shabby, drab, or squalid". My Webster's New World German Dictionary defines dingy as schmuddelig. In a display of inconsistency, they define schmudd(e)lig as messy, dirty, filthy. I always equated dingy with dark, gloomy. Dingy is pronounced DIN-jy. Dinghy, pronounced DING-Y, according to American Heritage, is 1. A small open boat carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a larger boat. 2. A small rowboat. 3. An inflatable rubber life raft. The German word, as per Webster, is Schlauchboot. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > Dingy!! UGH!!! I just spent about 10 minutes looking up that word in the > dictionary. I couldn't find it at all. Of course, I wasn't looking for > the word, just the spelling. There is a difference. When looking for the > spelling, you aren't concentrating on any words that you see. I just > couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't find it!!! That is until I was going > to email the list for the spelling, and went to look at the title of > dictionary I was using to tell you all that I couldn't find it in.....are > you ready for this? > I had the wrong RED dictionary. Here I spent all that time looking in my > Spanish dictionary!!! My brother-in-law must have switched them, when he > was using my computer :o) LOL, the way the brain works at times_well, my > brain, I should say !!! I just KNEW that dingy/dindgy had to be a word!!! > I thought dingy was a small boat, and that's what my spellcheck kept > giving me as the spelling. > Okay, Richard Emlin Reed, what is the German for that word. Now not dumb > :O) but dingy. > Thanks! > Lynn

Around here, we use the word 'dingy' (ding-ee) to indicate someone who is not playing with a full deck, a bit off kilter, squirrelly, or nuts! We're always telling our dog, Dancer, that she is a dingy dog because she gets crazy when she wants to play. <smile> Mary ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Emlin Reed To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases Dingy is one of those words whose meaning is in the eye of the beholder. My American Heritage dictionary defines it as "Darkened with smoke and grime; dirty or discolored. 2. Shabby, drab, or squalid". My Webster's New World German Dictionary defines dingy as schmuddelig. In a display of inconsistency, they define schmudd(e)lig as messy, dirty, filthy. I always equated dingy with dark, gloomy. Dingy is pronounced DIN-jy. Dinghy, pronounced DING-Y, according to American Heritage, is 1. A small open boat carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a larger boat. 2. A small rowboat. 3. An inflatable rubber life raft. The German word, as per Webster, is Schlauchboot. Richard Emlin Reed Wesley Chapel, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Words and phrases > Dingy!! UGH!!! I just spent about 10 minutes looking up that word in the > dictionary. I couldn't find it at all. Of course, I wasn't looking for > the word, just the spelling. There is a difference. When looking for the > spelling, you aren't concentrating on any words that you see. I just > couldn't figure out WHY I couldn't find it!!! That is until I was going > to email the list for the spelling, and went to look at the title of > dictionary I was using to tell you all that I couldn't find it in.....are > you ready for this? > I had the wrong RED dictionary. Here I spent all that time looking in my > Spanish dictionary!!! My brother-in-law must have switched them, when he > was using my computer :o) LOL, the way the brain works at times_well, my > brain, I should say !!! I just KNEW that dingy/dindgy had to be a word!!! > I thought dingy was a small boat, and that's what my spellcheck kept > giving me as the spelling. > Okay, Richard Emlin Reed, what is the German for that word. Now not dumb > :O) but dingy. > Thanks! > Lynn ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message