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dinghy
What does dinghy mean?
To ignore someone on purpose. Blank their texts, walk past them in the street, leave them on read. Ghosting before ghosting had a name. You 'gie someone a dinghy' or just 'dinghy' them.
"I've been textin' her aw week an' she's pure dinghyin' me."
Origin
Glaswegian — thought to come from the small dinghy boat being cast off / set adrift from a larger ship. You set the person adrift.
Frequently asked questions
What does dinghy mean in Scottish slang?
To dinghy someone means to deliberately blank or ignore them — the Scottish version of ghosting.
How do you use dinghy in a sentence?
"I texted him three times and he just dinghied me."
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