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Author	saladinzero
Comment	I was curious about the etymology of the word, and it's nothing to do with [boats](https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4758#:~:text=DINGIE%2C%20DINGY%20v%20to%20rebuff,to%20keep%20a%20(romantic)%20appointment): > Dingie is a derivation of the Scots ‘ding’ which is defined in the Dictionary of Scots Language http://www.dsl.ac.uk as “To knock, beat or strike: to drive; to push suddenly and forcibly; to displace or overturn by shoving” and the very earliest example of ‘ding’ in DSL comes from the Legends of the Saints by John Barbour (1380)
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/111gfs8/what_does_patched_mean/j8irhxz/
Created	Tue 14th Feb 2023 4:48pm
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I was curious about the etymology of the word, and it's nothing to do with [boats](https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/id/4758#:~:text=DINGIE%2C%20DINGY%20v%20to%20rebuff,to%20keep%20a%20(romantic)%20appointment):

> Dingie is a derivation of the Scots ‘ding’ which is defined in the Dictionary of Scots Language http://www.dsl.ac.uk as “To knock, beat or strike: to drive; to push suddenly and forcibly; to displace or overturn by shoving” and the very earliest example of ‘ding’ in DSL comes from the Legends of the Saints by John Barbour (1380)