喜樂美語
  1. 1傻瓜、笨蛋（美式口語）

    In informal American English, a ding-a-ling is a silly, empty-headed person — someone acting foolish, not a dangerous fool. It copies the sound of a little bell, and that is the joke: as if there is nothing in the head but a bell going ding. It feels childish and comic, closer to goof or nut than to a hard insult, and you would not use it in a serious report. Though actually, the same spelling is also crude slang for a penis, so the word can turn rude without warning; the meaning filed here is only the 'stupid person' one. Keep it out of class and mixed company unless you are very sure of the room.

組成Imitative: it copies a small bell's ding. It does not split into meaningful English pieces. (A crude body-part sense may come from dingling, a small ding — that is a different use.)

同家族的字

  • dingthe bell sound this word copies

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

ding-a-lingnoun

  • 1

    The sound of a small bell; the sound of a fire engine bell.

    • The ding-a-ling from the fire truck somehow filled him with more dread than its horn blasts could: for whom does that bell toll?
  • 2

    slangAn eccentric, crazy, or stupid person.

    • Pay no heed to what she hollers — she's a ding-a-ling!
  • 3

    slangThe penis.

    • They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.
    • This is Henry the Eighth? My God, was he girthy. My God, is that really how big his ding-a-ling was?

ding-a-lingadj

  • 1

    slangAttractive.

    • Joe is so ding-a-ling, I think I'm in love.

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