In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
DINGY
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
(adjective) causing dejection; “a blue day”; “the dark days of the war”; “a week of rainy depressing weather”; “a disconsolate winter landscape”; “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”; “a dark gloomy day”; “grim rainy weather”
begrimed, dingy, grimy, grubby, grungy, raunchy
(adjective) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; “a miner’s begrimed face”; “dingy linen”; “grimy hands”; “grubby little fingers”; “a grungy kitchen”
dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
(adjective) (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; “dirty” is often used in combination; “a dirty (or dingy) white”; “the muddied grey of the sea”; “muddy colors”; “dirty-green walls”; “dirty-blonde hair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
dingy (comparative dingier, superlative dingiest)
drab; shabby; dirty; squalid
Synonyms
• (drab): dismal, drab, dreary, gloomy, grimy
Antonyms
• (drab): bright, clean
Etymology 2
Noun
dingy (plural dingies)
Alternative form of dinghy
Anagrams
• dying
Source: Wiktionary
Din"gey, Din"gy, Din"ghy, n. Etym: [Bengalee dingi.]
1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. [Written also dinghey.] Malcom.
2. A ship's smallest boat.
Din"gy, a. [Compar. Dingier; superl. Dingiest.] Etym: [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. Dungy.]
Definition: Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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