dinghy

From Bengali ডিঙি (ḍiṅi), probably from Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “wooden vessel”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ(ɡ)i/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɪŋ.i/

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  • Rhymes: -ɪŋi
• Rhymes: -ɪŋɡi

dinghy (plural dinghies)

1. (nautical) A small open boat, propelled by oars or paddles, carried as a tender, lifeboat, or pleasure craft on a ship.
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

2. (nautical) A sailing dinghy.
3. (nautical) An inflatable rubber life raft.

• tender

• sailing dinghy
• dinghy towing

dinghy (third-person singular simple present dinghies, present participle dinghying, simple past and past participle dinghied)

1. (intransitive) To travel by dinghy.

• hyding

• IPA^(key): /din.ɡi/

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dinghy m (plural dinghys)

1. (nautical) dinghy

• “dinghy”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.