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Date: 1900-2000
Origin: ding-a-ling 'sound of a bell' (19-21 centuries)

ding-a-ling

 noun
     
ding-a-ling also ding‧bat [countable] American English spoken
a stupid person:
Some ding-a-ling parked too close to us.
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