dinge

Dinginess.

The bathroom is smeared with fingerprints and painted dingy white, not the most flattering light. Jon wouldn’t feel like an artist without a certain amount of dinge around.

A black person.

‘A dinge,’ he said. ‘I just thrown him out. You seen me throw him out?’

‘You made a hit with the dinge,’ Bob was saying.

to strike, scourge, beat; indent, bruise, knock in

to flog, as in penance