Variant spelling of dinghy; a small light boat.
Alternative spelling of dinghy, from Hindi or Bengali roots borrowed during British colonial rule in India.
This alternate spelling shows how English never settled on one way to spell borrowed words—for dinghy alone, we have dinghy, dingy, dingey, dingee, and dingar, making it one of English's most inconsistent borrowings.
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