This week’s theme
Words with opposite or contradictory meanings

This week’s words
farouche
dinky
shifty
endsville
presently

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(DING-kee)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. (In the US) Small; insignificant; undesirable.
2. (In the UK) Attractively tiny; cute.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Scots dink (neat, trim). Earliest documented use: 1788.

USAGE:

“My hometown is a dinky place no one’s ever heard of, and it could use some philanthropic donations for the budget gaps.”
Kylie Gilmore; Rogue Beast; Extra Fancy Books; 2020.

“Ms [Ghislaine] Maxwell was invariably described as an ‘Oxford-educated British socialite’. She dropped dinky British phrases into her conversation.”
Fading Anglophilia; The Economist (London, UK); Jul 11, 2020.

See more usage examples of dinky in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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