Usually means: Small, cute, and often insignificant.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word dinky:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. dinky: Merriam-Webster
  2. Dinky, dinky, dinky: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dinky: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dinky: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dinky: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dinky, dinky: Wordnik
  7. dinky: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dinky: Wiktionary
  9. dinky: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dinky: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dinky: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dinky: Dictionary.com
  13. dinky: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dinky: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DINKY, Dinky (film), Dinky: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. dinky: Rhymezone
  17. dinky: FreeDictionary.org
  18. dinky: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dinky: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. dinky: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DINKY: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. dinky, dinky, dinky, dinky, dinky, dinky, dinky, dinky: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dinky: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. D.I.N.K.Y, dinky: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dinkier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal, British) Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
adjective:  (informal, US) Tiny and insignificant; small and undesirable.
noun:  A dinky thing.
noun:  (Appalachia) A small mine car; especially, a small coal car.
noun:  (slang) A person in a relationship with double income and no kids

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