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

Then he hurls said Patent Dingbat into the nearest pool.

From Camp and Trail by White, Stewart Edward

When the Evening Journal put us in their "Dingbat Family" I enjoyed the humour of it.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

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