dingbat in English
noun
1
a stupid or eccentric person.
I really appreciated that he walked me though the initial binocular lesson without making me feel like a dingbat .
2
a typographical device other than a letter or numeral (such as an asterisk), used to signal divisions in text or to replace letters in a euphemistically presented vulgar word.
He has been collecting commercial misadventures for some time, and we heartily recommend the orange cone (‘the typographical dingbat of public spaces’) of his own gallery.
Use "dingbat" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "dingbat" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "dingbat", or refer to the context using the word "dingbat" in the English Dictionary.
1. Tim flirts with Boobishness but wife Jill is no dingbat
2. Article on Bryan Ferry -- just really boring article -- so I set the whole article in Dingbat.
3. The central female in "Dingbat Disco" 1982 — Boogieing down, her face distorted between frontal and profile views — looks skinned to the bloody bone