dingy

Meanings

Adjective

• dark, dull
• shabby, squalid, uncared-for

Noun

• Alternative of dinghy

Origin

• From English dialectal (Kentish) dingy, of unknown origin, though probably from an unrecorded Middle English *dingy, *dungy, from Old English *dyncgig ("covered with dung, dirty"), an umlaut form of Old English duncge, dung, equivalent to dung + -y.