dingy

• adj. 昏暗的；肮髒的

可能來自dung, 糞。

dingy

dingy: [18] Nobody is quite sure where dingy comes from, but the very occasional occurrence of ding or dinge as Middle English forms of dung suggests that it may originally have signified ‘dung-coloured’ (although if it came from such a source it might have been expected to rhyme with springy rather than stingy). Dung [OE] itself appears to go back ultimately to an Indo-European base *dhengh- denoting ‘covering’ (relatives include the Lithuanian verb dengti ‘cover’), so its etymological significance is ‘material spread over the earth (for fertilization)’ rather than ‘excrement’.
=> dung

dingy (adj.)

1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to dung. The noun dinge (1816) is a back-formation.

1. He was living alone in a dingy bedsit in London.

他獨自一人住在倫敦一間昏暗的客臥兩用出租屋裏。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Then he looked about upon a dingy, moth - eaten hotel lobby.

這時他朝這個陰暗 、 破爛的旅館門廳四周看了看.

來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹

3. He lives in a dingy room.

他住在一個肮髒的屋子裏。

來自辭典例句

4. Shaw took me to his rather dingy office.

肖帶我去了他那個陳舊昏暗的辦公室。

來自辭典例句

5. It was a dingy affair -- wooden, dusty, hard.

這是一間陰暗的房間 -- 木地板, 滿屋灰塵, 床鋪很硬.

來自英漢文學 - 嘉莉妹妹