dingy

• adj.薄暗い；汚い

おそらく糞、糞便に由来する。

dingy

dingy: [18] Nobody is quite sure where dingy comes from, but the very occasional occurrence of ding or dinge as Middle English forms of dung suggests that it may originally have signified ‘dung-coloured’ (although if it came from such a source it might have been expected to rhyme with springy rather than stingy). Dung [OE] itself appears to go back ultimately to an Indo-European base *dhengh- denoting ‘covering’ (relatives include the Lithuanian verb dengti ‘cover’), so its etymological significance is ‘material spread over the earth (for fertilization)’ rather than ‘excrement’.
=> dung

dingy (adj.)

1736, Kentish dialect, "dirty," of uncertain origin, but perhaps related to dung. The noun dinge (1816) is a back-formation.

1. He was living alone in a dingy bedsit in London.

彼はロンドンの暗い客用賃貸住宅に一人で住んでいる。

2.Then he looked about upon a dingy ，moth-eaten hotel lobby.

この時、彼はこの暗くてがらくたなホテルのロビーの周りを見た。

3.He lives in a dingy room.

彼は汚い部屋に住んでいる。

4.Shaw took me to his rather dingy office.

ショウは私を彼の古くて暗いオフィスに連れて行ってくれた。

5.It was a dingy affair--wooden,dusty,hard.

暗い部屋--木の床、ほこりだらけ、ベッドが硬い。