ding dong

See also: dingdong and ding-dong

English

(onomatopoeia, colloquial, often childish) The sound made by a doorbell.
Ding dong bell, pussy's in the well! / Who put her in? Little Johnny Thin. / Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout. (Traditional English nursery rhyme)
(colloquial) A general exclamation of surprise or approval.
— Here's a photo of my new girlfriend. — Ding dong!
- 1959, Norman Hudis, 0:44:35 from the start, in Carry On Nurse (motion picture), spoken by Jack Bell (Leslie Phillips), Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors, →OCLC, retrieved 2017-11-10:
  Ding dong, you're not wrong.

onomatopoeia for the sound of a doorbell

Chinese:
Mandarin: 丁冬 (zh) (dīngdōng), 丁当 (zh) (dīngdāng), 丁當／丁当 (zh) (dīngdāng)
Czech: crrr, crr crr
Finnish: pim pom
French: drelin-drelin (fr), dring-dring (fr)
Hungarian: bim-bam (hu)
Japanese: ピンポン (pin-pon)
Kazakh: дың-дың (dyñ-dyñ)
Polish: dzyń (pl), bam (pl), bim-bam, bim-bam-bom
Portuguese: tão balalão
Russian: динь-дон (dinʹ-don)
Swedish: ding dång
Ukrainian: дзень-дзе́нь (dzenʹ-dzénʹ), дзеле́нь-дзень (dzelénʹ-dzenʹ), дзень-дзеле́нь (dzenʹ-dzelénʹ), дзінь-дзі́нь (dzinʹ-dzínʹ)
Vietnamese: bính bong, bính boong

ding dong (plural ding dongs)

(colloquial, derogatory) Alternative form of ding-dong; an idiot.
My girlfriend's math teacher is a ding dong.
(colloquial, often humorous, euphemistic) Alternative form of ding-dong; a penis.

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