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Meaning of dinky in English

dinky
adjective
  informal
uk
/ˈdɪŋ.ki/ us
/ˈdɪŋ.ki/
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small:
UK approving She's got dinky little (= small and charming) feet.
US disapproving They live in a dinky one-room apartment.
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dinky
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈdɪŋ.ki/ us
/ˈdɪŋ.ki/
abbreviation for double income no kids yet: a member of a young couple in which both partners earn a lot of money and are able to spend it on themselves because they have no children:
This area is too expensive for most people to live in, but it's particularly popular with dinkies.
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Class & class-consciousness in general
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(Definition of dinky from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

dinky | American Dictionary

dinky
adjective [ -er/-est only ]
  infml
us
/ˈdɪŋ·ki/
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very small or slight:
She had a dinky little apartment.
(Definition of dinky from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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There are the lifestyles of the yuppies and the dinkies.
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They do not do it by placing a dinky little advertisement.
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We are taking money from families and giving it to the dinkies: down the kids and up the dinkies.
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The train was often run with one car, dubbed the dinky, and made its last run on 1955.
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Dinky was standard boy character, sporting a flat cap, a striped shirt, and dark shorts.
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The reference depicted it as being dinky and unimportant.
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He has described his early comics as just these dinky revenge cartoons in response to having been picked on a lot growing up.
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Build a lot of dinky little ships that can transport 11 people each?
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Dinky was adopted as a baby.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
小的, 頂客族（雙收入但沒有孩子的夫妻，通常比較富裕，沒有子女負擔，double income no kids yet的縮寫）…
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in Chinese (Simplified)
小的, 丁克一族（双收入但没有孩子的夫妻，通常比较富裕，没有子女负担，double income no kids yet的缩写）…
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in Spanish
pequeño, forma abreviada de "double income no kids yet":, pareja de profesionales jóvenes y sin hijos que ganan buenos sueldos…
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in Portuguese
forma abreviada de "double income no kids yet":, casal rico sem filhos…
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