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Dinkum means (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Genuine, true, honest, on the level..
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/ˈdɪŋkəm/ · adjective
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Genuine, true, honest, on the level..
Hon. Sir Ross McLarty: We were always dinkum. Mr. MAY: The ultimate result showed how dinkum the hon. member was.
The dinkum Aussie everyone talks about, almost always with a certain unreal sentimentality, is clearly a worker.
Larry's jeep was behind mine, and as I went past an intersection, I saw a lot of their chaps around a dinkum super Mark VI tank — p'raps a Mark VII or VIII. I didn't have a chance for a proper dinkum look-see, what?
He explained that he was due to have a game of hazards that night with a couple of Italian prospectors and that he was doctoring the dice so that they would do just what he wanted them to do. ‘Tim, is this game dinkum?’ asked Ted. Highly indignant that such a suspicion should arise, he replied angrily: ‘Of course it's dinkum. They'll have loaded dice too!’
You look real jockey — thats' the dinkum.
Use dinkum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dinkum means (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Genuine, true, honest, on the level..
Common synonyms include dinky-die.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hon. Sir Ross McLarty: We were always dinkum. Mr. MAY: The ultimate result showed how dinkum the hon. member was.
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