Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dingdong"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Dingdong \Ding"dong`\, n. [See {Ding}.]
1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic
body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.
2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter
hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ding-dong
n : the noise made by a bell
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
dingdong
adv : (informal) heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work
dingdong"
v : go "ding dong", like a bell [syn: {ding}, {dong}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.