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7 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a silly empty-headed person
originUnknown, US mid 19th century. The word-puzzle sense comes from the board game Dingbats, which is based on these puzzles. In the sense of a miscellaneous gadget, probably influenced by dingus or its etyma.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0