ding dong

See also: dingdong, and ding-dong

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪŋ(ɡ)ˈdɒŋ(ɡ)/

Interjection

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1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial, often childish) The sound made by a bell or doorbell.
   • Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well!
     Who put her in? Little Johnny Thin.
     Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. — Traditional English nursery rhyme
2. (colloquial) A general exclamation of surprise or approval.

   — "Here's a photo of my new girlfriend."

   — "Ding dong!"

   • 1959, Norman Hudis, 0:44:35 from the start, in Carry On Nurse (motion picture), spoken by Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips), Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, →OCLC, retrieved 2017-11-10:

     Ding dong, you're not wrong.

Translations

onomatopoeia for the sound of a doorbell

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丁冬 (zh) (dīngdōng), 丁当 (zh) (dīngdāng), 丁當／丁当 (zh) (dīngdāng)

• Czech: crrr, crr crr
• Finnish: pim pom
• French: drelin-drelin (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: bim-bam
• Kazakh: дың-дың (dyñ-dyñ)
• Polish: bim bom, dzyń
• Russian: динь-дон (dinʹ-don)
• Vietnamese: bính bong, bính boong

Noun

ding dong (plural ding dongs)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) An idiot.

   My girlfriend's math teacher is a ding dong.

2. (colloquial, often humorous, euphemistic) A penis.

   What do you mean booze ain't food? I'd rather chop off my ding dong than admit that!