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dinghy

UK/ˈdɪŋ.(ɡ)i/US/ˈdɪŋ.(ɡ)i/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,516 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: dinghies

A dinghy is a small open boat, often carried by a bigger one. Row the dinghy, an inflatable dinghy, a sailing dinghy.

It does three jobs under one name: the tender that ferries you from a yacht to the shore, the small sailing boat people learn in, and the inflatable life raft. Note the spelling — the h is silent and easily forgotten.

Andy1896 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of dinghy

  1. 1noundinghyA small open boat, often carried by a bigger one.B2+

    “We rowed the dinghy from the beach out to where the yacht was anchored.”

dinghy is a boat.

Where it comes from

From Bengali dingi, a small boat, taken into English by sailors in the nineteenth century.

  1. Sanskrit

    द्रोण — wooden trough

  2. bn

    ডিঙি

  3. English, today

    dinghy

From bn ডিঙি, perhaps from Sanskrit द्रोण (“wooden trough”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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dinghy in the wild

  • A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender.

    Dinghy

  • The Mirror is a type of popular sailing dinghy with more than 70,000 built.

    Mirror (dinghy)

  • The Enterprise is a Bermuda rigged sailing dinghy with a double-chined hull and distinctive blue sails.

    Enterprise (dinghy)

  • The Finn dinghy is a single-handed, cat-rigged sailboat, and a former Olympic class for men's sailing.

    Finn (dinghy)

  • The Optimist, also known as Opti, is a small, single-handed sailing dinghy intended for use by young people up to the age of 15.

    Optimist (dinghy)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.