This name always reminds me of the 1970 Frank Sinatra movie Dirty Dingus Magee http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065642/.

On the topic of dirty characters-- rumor has it that Frank Sinatra was set to play Dirty Harry instead of Clint Eastwood but for some reason I cannot see Frank Sinatra uttering the line-- "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?"

What is a Dingus?