dingbat

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The stage-trained actress co-starred with Carroll O'Connor in the series about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he called "Dingbat," their daughter and liberal son-in-law.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2013

This is the Dingbat Age, in which anything can happen.

From Time Magazine Archive

That is a sad tale having to do with running flames, and burned table pieces, not to speak of a melted-down connection or so on the Dingbat.

From The Killer by White, Stewart Edward

Then he hurls said Patent Dingbat into the nearest pool.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

Whenever a Dingbat forgets to count his shots in the bunkers, and comes home in the nineties, a public celebration takes place on the clubhouse porch.

From Fore! by Loan, Charles Emmett Van