Noun: dingbat 'ding,bat
- A silly empty-headed person
"you would be a dingbat even to try it"; "yet here he was with an upper class dingbat who just happened to be married to his sister"
- A symbol in a computer character set that is not a number, letter or punctuation; for example asterisk, arrows, check marks, etc.
"The designer used dingbats to add decorative elements to the poster"
Derived forms: dingbats
Type of: simple [archaic], simpleton
Encyclopedia: Dingbat