dinky

The prevailing weirdness over physical controls is no doubt responsible for the dinky switch console in the center stack, with audio, climate controls and emergency flasher crowded together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

"Some of them are really quite small and dinky if you like, so they might be some of the younger beavers that have been doing that."

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

But in this reversal of fortune, he is the largest opponent, taking it upon himself to defend a dinky innocent from a herd of hunters dwarfed by his size but much larger than the cricket.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026

There will be dozens of other dinky parochial interests from individual members to tend to as well, but that’s standard.

From Slate ● May 17, 2025

If she’d wanted help with it, she would’ve sent it up in that dinky little bucket.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

As a child Mr Kinchen was bought a couple of pre-war dinkies as a child, which sparked his enthusiasm for the miniature vehicles, Mr Motley said.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2016

Gently the paddle was wielded, and the little “punkin-seed of a boat,” as the boys sometimes termed the dinkies, was noiselessly wafted shoreward.

From Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Louis Arundel

I saw two lads in little dinkies like that one yonder, fishing over by the long island, and guessed that possibly they belonged to your party.”

From Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Louis Arundel

The fruits of that success are a newly discovered asteroid—an even dinkier Dinky, as it were—and a host of puzzles to solve.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 3, 2023

The big outer space effects shots of “USS Callister” look professional-grade, and not even relative to TV’s dinkier standards.

From The Verge ● Oct. 9, 2017

"I don't know which is the dinkier," she observed finally, "—owning a few little acres and the team you're driving, or not owning any acres and driving a team somebody else owns for wages."

From The Valley of the Moon by Jack London

Joe Montana’s shoulder pads were the dinkiest you’ve ever seen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2019

In fact, I found out since then that it really was a garage once, until somebody changed it into the world’s dinkiest house.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

These were the dinkiest owls that Officer Delinko had.ever seen—only eight or nine inches tall.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen

Oh! there’s the dinkiest little baby with a brown face.

From The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham