dingbat
Printed decorative symbol
A dingbat is a stupid or scatterbrained person: Don't be such a dingbat.
The word is mildly dismissive rather than harsh.
In typography, dingbats are decorative symbols and ornaments—stars, arrows, checkmarks—used to embellish or separate text.
The connection between the meanings is unclear; both emerged in American English in the early twentieth century.
Visual form of character
Eccentric individual
- kookEccentric or strange person
- weirdoPeculiar person, dismissively
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- crackpotEccentric with strange ideas
nut · flake · screwball · crank · original · nonconformist · madcap · free spirit
One-story house with porch
- A-frameTriangular building structure
- ranch houseOne-story sprawling house
- split-levelHouse with offset floors
- California bungalowEarly American residential style
craftsman · tract home · mid-century · suburban · cookie-cutter
dimwit
Foolish, slow person
dolt · dummy · dullard · doofus · fool · idiot · moron · nincompoop · numbskull · bonehead
glyph
Visual form of character
symbol · flourish · pictograph · icon · fleuron · asterism · pilcrow
oddball
Eccentric individual
crackpot · nut · flake · screwball · crank · original · nonconformist · madcap · free spirit · zany
bungalow
One-story house with porch
- A-frameTriangular building structure
- ranch houseOne-story sprawling house
- split-levelHouse with offset floors
California bungalow · craftsman · tract home · mid-century · suburban · cookie-cutter
- dimwitsdimwit, idiot, dolt, dunce, moron
- teasing insultsdoofus, goofball, dork, dweeb, goober
- house stylesbungalow, craftsman, colonial, farmhouse, ranch house
- typographic symbolsasterisk, ampersand, dagger, double dagger, pilcrow
- letterpressletterpress, movable type, metal type, galley, composing stick
- foolsfool, idiot, moron, fools, idiots
dingbatgenius
Person of rare brilliance
sage · intellectual · brainiac · mastermind · Einstein
dingbatletter
Written symbol or message
letterform · numeral · grapheme · character · alphanumeric