Dingdong \Ding"dong`\, n. [See {Ding}.] 1. The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound. 2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.
dingdong adv : heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong" v : go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: {ding}, {dong}]