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How to pronounce dingbat in English?

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Type Words
Type of simple, simpleton


you would be a dingbat even to try it.
yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister.

Examples of dingbat

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The critics called me a dingbat or a bimbo, I was playing for the camera.
From the orlandosentinel.com
What about Rick Perry's dingbat preacher friend putting down Mormons?
From the huffingtonpost.com
For more examples of dingbat typefaces, see Wingdings and Webdings.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Another famous dingbat typeface, Zapf Dingbats, was designed by the typographer Hermann Zapf.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Anne is more qualified than dingbat rosen to comment on the economy.
From the forbes.com
She's a dingbat one moment, a serious heroine the next.
From the post-gazette.com
But please don't feel guilty about not tipping that dingbat.
From the abcnews.go.com
Use this time to go get a new spare, you dingbat.
From the guardian.co.uk
Quite frankly, she was kind of a dingbat.
From the post-gazette.com
More examples
  • A silly empty-headed person; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"
  • A dingbat is an ornament, character or spacer used in typesetting, sometimes more formally known as a "printer's ornament" or "printer's character".
  • A dingbat is a type of formulaic apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two- or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. ...
  • Dingbats is the name of a board game that was devised by Paul Sellers and is currently manufactured by Ravensburger. The game, for two or more people, involves solving rebuses (puzzles in which a common word or saying is hidden in a cryptic or otherwise unique arrangement of symbols). ...
  • A silly or stupid person; A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc; An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars
  • (dingbats) Typefaces that consist of symbol characters such as decorations, arrows and bullets.
  • (Dingbats) Typographical symbols and ornaments.
  • (Dingbats) An iconic character glyph, such as a star, a flower, a little square box. There are special iconic fonts, such as Zapf Dingbats and Wingdings, which contain these ornamental characters instead of letters.
  • (Dingbats) a font consisting of symbols and line art images.