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Dinsdale Moment 

A particular point in a conversation with someone where you find someone has ceased to regard anything you say and are quite content to have a continuous monologue with themselves. Any attempt by you to re-join the conversation is usually ignored.

A term used frequently around the South of England amongst school children and college students. Nobody is completely sure of its origin, or in fact, if it is inspired by a true person.
Jerry: Hey Tom, how long has he been talking?
Tom: Last time i checked, about half an hour.
Jerry: Do you think we should maybe ask him what the hell he's going on about?
Tom: I wouldn't bother, he won't listen, he's having a Dinsdale Moment.

Barny: Alright John, what's your opinion on the Green party policies?
Greg: Shit Barny! what are you doing? You actually want John to have a Dinsdale Moment?
Barny: Sure, it's hot in here and we can use his mouth as a fan.

Arthur Dimmesdale 

Character in the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The man with which Hester Pryne conceives her child Pearl. He is outwardly veiwed as a saint, which only increases his inner hatred of his inability to confess his sin. His guilt leads him to punish himself physically and mentally. It is possible that, in addition to becoming gaunt, his guilt caused him to develop a heart problem.
"The aged members of his flock, beholding Mr. Dimmesdale's frame so feeble, while they themselves so rugged in their infirmity, believed that he would go heavenward before them, and enjoined it upon their children that their old bones should be buried close to their young pastor's holy grave. And, all this time, perchance, when poor Dimmesdale was thinking of his grave, he questioned with himself wether the grass would ever grow on it, because an accursed thing must there be buried." - The Scarlet Letter
(The Interior of a Heart)

Translation: The old people that he preaches to think he is so humble and saint-like, that they want to be buried close to him. But Arthur Dimmesdale thinks he is so sinful that grass wouldn't grow on his grave when he dies.
Arthur Dimmesdale by Ivakin April 4, 2009

Dinsdale 

The sexiest thing you will ever come across in your life
Wow there goes "the sexiest thing ive ever come across in my life." Hes so DINSDALE
Dinsdale by Mike Dinsdale November 28, 2006

Dinsdale 

A typical dweeb who thinks a don is a cigarette.
Me: Hey Kyle, stop playin' MoH:AA.
Dinsdale: Meh.
Dinsdale by C~ Money October 8, 2007
Person A inadvertently elbows Person B on dance floor, causing Person B to fight Person C, all whilst Person A is blissfully unaware.
That girl just dibsdaled those guys.
Dibsdale by TreblaM July 3, 2010
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
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