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Dingbat

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Noun

1. dingbat

a silly empty-headed person

Example Sentences:
'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'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dingbat

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noun US slang
1. 
any unnamed object, esp one used as a missile
2. 
a crazy or stupid person

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Dingbat

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noun
1.  Informal, Obsolete
a stone, stick, or other object suitable for throwing
2.  Printing; Informal
any of various decorative marks, as at the beginning of a paragraph
3.  Slang
a foolish or erratic person

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dingbat

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n.
1. Slang An empty-headed or silly person.
2. An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
3. Slang An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
4. Printing A typographical ornament or symbol.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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