You got a good laugh there, Bob; offering to "dink Brenda home" would have been a real double entendre.

Conversations yesterday brought up the notion that "dinking" might have been a Victorian (State, rather than state of mind) term, but someone recalled her mum used it; her mum came from Hay which, although in the Riverina part of NSW, got its newspapers and football from Victoria.

G'day and thanks, rich-joy. It might be that there was an overlap between Aussie Rules and the use of the word. We need to hear from some Taswegians and South Australians.

Cheers, Rowan