English Explanatory Dictionary

dinkus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small drawing or artwork used for decoration in a magazine or periodical.
  2. A small ornament, usually a line of three asterisks (* * *), especially for the purpose of breaking up sections of a chapter, article, or other text.

Word forms

dinkus dinkuses dingus

Etymology

From dinky (“tiny and cute”). The word was coined by an artist on the Australian periodical The Bulletin in the 1920s.

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