Dingbat (Noun)
Meaning
A silly empty-headed person; "you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister".
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- Only a dingbat would think they could eat a whole ghost pepper in one sitting.
- She was a dingbat who thought she could solve world hunger with a single tweet.
- He was a self-proclaimed genius, but his friends knew he was just a dingbat who got lucky on his last business venture.
- The politician's latest proposal was so ridiculous that only a dingbat would think it had a chance of passing.
- After a few too many drinks, he started acting like a dingbat, doing karaoke to a song he didn't know the words to.