dingdong

ding-dong n.

[See Ding.]

1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or contemptuous sense. [slang]

Syn. -- ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC]

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IN BRIEF: v. - Go `ding dong', like a bell adv. - Heartily or earnestly.