dingbat
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The stage-trained actress co-starred with Carroll O'Connor in the series about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he called "Dingbat," their daughter and liberal son-in-law.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2013
This is the Dingbat Age, in which anything can happen.
From Time Magazine Archive
That is a sad tale having to do with running flames, and burned table pieces, not to speak of a melted-down connection or so on the Dingbat.
From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward
Yes, that is all very well; but it was only a matter of sheer chance that the Patent Dingbat is not in pile No. 1.
From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward
Whenever a Dingbat forgets to count his shots in the bunkers, and comes home in the nineties, a public celebration takes place on the clubhouse porch.
From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van
