Associations to the word «Dingbat»

Wiktionary

DINGBAT, noun. (informal) A silly, crazy or stupid person.
DINGBAT, noun. (typography) A special ornamental typographical symbol, such as a bullet, an arrow, a pointing hand etc.
DINGBAT, noun. (architecture) An architectural style of apartment building, where the second storey overhangs an area for parking cars.

Dictionary definition

DINGBAT, noun. 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".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King