A Word For All Seasons

In My Humble Opinion
1

There’s a single English word that can mean a stupid person, a small apartment house, or a typographical symbol. What is it?

2

Bungalow?

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3

There are two words that sound the same, one means stupid the other means small home - imbecile, domicile

4

I believe it is a “dingbat”.

5

Is it a flat?

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Winner!!!

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Ok, I just checked Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, the Encarta World English Dictionary, the Cambridge International Dictionary of English, The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus, the American Heritage Dictionary, the Infoplease Dictionary and Dictionary.com. I’ve come up with the following definitions for “dingbat”:

  1. Slang. An empty-headed or silly person.
  2. An object, such as a brick or stone, used as a missile.
  3. Slang. An unspecified gadget or other small article, especially one whose name is unknown or forgotten.
  4. Printing. A typographical ornament or symbol.

Just so I can stop pulling my hair out, where is “dingbat” used as a colloquialism for “a small apartment house”? :confused:

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Try HERE

9

I bet there’s a place and/or time where ‘sausage’ meant telephone.

10

That’s really zam, frood. Sausage me later, we’ll klaximote a time for it.

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Don’t you think that’s totally spam? It’s lubricated! Well, I’m phasing.