humdinger

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
19
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/hʌmˈdɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/(UK)
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/hʌmˈdɪŋ.ə(ɹ)/(UK) · /hʌmˈdɪŋ.ɚ/(US)

Definition of humdinger

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)Something that is particularly outstanding, unusual, or exceptional.
    “Most of the questions were pretty easy, but that last one was a humdinger.”
    ““—immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.” “Superman?” Clevinger cried. “Superman?” “Supraman,” Yossarian corrected.”
    ““I’ve seen some humdingers, but never any ordinance like this,” said Mark Hayes, general counsel for the Arkansas Municipal League, an organization for towns and cities.”

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Etymology

US origin, perhaps a blend of hummer (“something that moves fast”) + dinger (“something outstanding”). First attested in a newspaper article in the Daily Enterprise of June 4, 1883, at Livingston, Montana.

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6-letter words

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4-letter words

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3-letter words

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