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Clues from Google:
"The verb to ding goes back to Middle English and has as its main sense 'to beat; strike'; there are a number of sub-senses. This is rare in England but is in use in Scotland, Australia, and the United States. It is of uncertain origin but is probably from a Scandinavian language.
The noun equivalent of this is 'a dent; small scratch; nick', which dates from the 1940s. There is an earlier noun meaning 'a strike or blow' but this seems to have been very rare. There is another ding, meaning 'a ringing sound' [think "ding-dong"] and 'to cause to make a ringing sound', from the sixteenth century. This word is imitative, but it seems to have been frequently confused with our first ding, since 'to strike' and 'to strike [a bell] to make a ringing sound' have quite a bit of overlap.
A slang sense of ding that I have been asking myself about is 'a statement or notice of rejection, as for a job or a fraternity membership', with the verb 'to reject' and the derived form ding letter. These forms date from the 1950s. I thought it came from Harvard or Oxford students who had decided to strike a bell after each rejection letter they had received. The idea was then to post each letter on a designed “wall of shame”." |
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