dingdong

dingdong
    adv 1: heartily or earnestly; "They fell to work dingdong"
    v 1: go `ding dong', like a bell [syn: {ding}, {dong},
         {dingdong}]
    

dingdong \ding"dong`\, ding-dong \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.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Horol.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter
      hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

   3. a stupid or foolish person; -- used in a deprecatory or
      contemptuous sense. [slang]

   Syn: ding-a-ling, doofus. [PJC]
    

114 Moby Thesaurus words for "dingdong":
      alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, asshole, assiduously,
      assonance, assonant, belabored, boob, booby, change ringing,
      chanting, chime, chiming, chink, chump, clang, clanging, clangor,
      clank, clanking, cliche-ridden, clink, clockwork regularity,
      constancy, daily round, ding, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dinging,
      dingle, dong, donging, drone, earnestly, even pace, even tenor,
      exhaustively, galoot, gong, goof, harping, humdrum, intensely,
      invariability, jangle, jerk, jerk-off, jingle, jingle-jangle,
      jinglejangle, jingling, jog-trot, klutz, knell, knelling, labored,
      monologue, monotone, monotonous, monotonousness, monotony, mutt,
      near rhyme, orderliness, painstakingly, peal, peal ringing,
      pealing, pitter-patter, prize sap, regularity, repeated sounds,
      repetitiousness, repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, ring,
      ring changes, ringing, sameliness, sameness, sap, saphead, sawney,
      schlemiel, singsong, slant rhyme, smoothness, sound, sound a knell,
      stale repetition, tedious, tedium, thoroughly, ting, ting-a-ling,
      tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabulate,
      toll, tolling, treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation,
      unnecessary repetition, unremittingly, unvariation