rinky-dink
英 ['riŋki'diŋk]
美
- adj. 破旧的；小规模经营的
- n. 破烂；次品
实用场景例句
- This small town only has one rinky - dink restaurant.
- 这个小镇只有一家陈旧破烂的便宜餐厅.
辞典例句
- My brother's rinky - dink motorcycle just fell apart.
- 我兄弟那辆破摩托车已经解体了.
辞典例句
英文词源
- rinky-dink (adj.)
- 1913 (from 1912 as a noun), said to be carnival slang and imitative of the sound of banjo music at parades [Barnhart]; compare ricky-tick "old-fashioned jazz" (1938). But early records suggest otherwise unless there are two words. The earliest senses seem to be as a noun, "maltreatment," especially robbery:
So I felt and saw that I was robbed and I went to look after an officer. I found an officer on the corner of Twenty-fifth street and Sixth avenue. I said, "Officer, I have got the rinky-dink." He knew what it meant all right. He said, "Where? Down at that wench house?" I said, "I guess that is right." [testimony dated New York August 9, 1899, published 1900]
And this chorus from the "Yale Literary Magazine," Feb. 1896:Rinky dinky, rinky dink,
Stand him up for another drink.