ditton.
/ˈdɪtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪdoʊ/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > the month already named
ditto1625
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes x. ix. §4 The eight and twentieth ditto, I went.. to the Generals Tent.
1677 Henchman in W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) I. 237 They, 27 ditto, brought in two Squaws, a Boy and a Girl. [By ditto is meant June, the date June 30 having just been mentioned.]
2.
a. By extension: The aforesaid, the same; used, in accounts and lists (where also abbreviated do, do., or expressed by two dots or commas, or a dash) to avoid repetition of a word or phrase appearing above; hence in commercial, office, and colloquial language.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun] > the same thing or person > the same thing as mentioned before > ditto
same1486
ditto1678
do.1722
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Ditto (Italian, said) [1706 adds the aforesaid or the same] a word used much in Merchants Accompts, and relation of Foreign news; and signifieth the same place [1696 the same Commodity or Place] with that immediately beforementioned.
1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. ii. 8 To Esquire South for post Terminums To ditto for Non est Factums.
1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 261 To the Clerk for every Petition or Answer 0 12 0 To ditto for Letters of Intimation or Liberation..0 18 0.
1759 W. Verral Compl. Syst. Cookery 105 Parsley roots, and leaves of ditto.
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 67 C. Thorough Foundation of Masonry..D. Low-water mark (three Feet above ditto Foundation).
1814 P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 116 Buonaparte's crown..ditto of Charlemagne.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge lii. 238 Came in yesterday morning rather the worse for liquor, and was..ditto last night.
1878 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 19 May 5/2 Mrs. Brown (who is also possessed of ditto ditto ditto).
b. to say ditto to: to acquiesce in or express agreement with what has been said by (another); to endorse the statements or conclusions of.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)]
to go ineOE
cordc1380
consentc1386
covin1393
condescend1477
agree1481
correspond1545
concur1590
to fall in1602
suffrage1614
to hit it1634
colour1639
to take with ——1646
to be with1648
to fall into ——1668
to run in1688
to think with1688
meet1694
coincide1705
to go in1713
to say ditto to1775
to see with ——1802
sympathize1828
1775 in Prior Life of Burke (1825) I. 284 His brother candidate Mr. Cruger, a merchant..at the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent harangues, finding..nothing to add..exclaimed..in the language of the counting-house, ‘I say ditto to Mr. Burke’.
1888 W. E. Norris Chris i. 19 His wife's convictions resembled those of the wise and unassuming politician who was content to say ditto to Mr. Burke.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella II. ii. v. 8 Two people who are going to be married ought to say ditto to each other in everything.
3. Hence as n.
a. A duplicate or copy; an exact resemblance; a similar thing.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > image of a person or thing
print1340
imagec1384
similitude?a1425
picturec1475
similitudeness1547
portrait1567
idol1590
model1594
self-imagea1672
duplicate1701
moral1751
ditto1776
fetch1787
double1798
fetch-like1841
splitting image1880
spitting image1901
spit1929
split-image1950
clone1977
the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [noun] > that which resembles something else
swilkc1175
anlike1340
liking1340
likeningc1350
semblancec1374
resemblancea1393
likenessa1400
semblablec1400
similitudinary?a1425
like1440
assemblable?1530
a horse of another (also the same, etc.) colour1530
resembler1570
fellowa1616
remonstrance1640
simile1743
ditto1776
something of the sort1839
that or this sort of thing1848
assimilate1935
1776 J. Adams in J. Adams & A. Adams Familiar Lett. (1876) 209 Canteens, camp kettles, blankets, tents, shoes, hose, arms, flints, and other dittoes.
1818 Lady Morgan Florence Macarthy (1819) III. i. 67 Judge Aubrey, just the ditto of herself.
1880 L. Parr Adam & Eve xii. 173 Aunt and uncle and my mother..think his ditto was never made.
1885 L. Oliphant Haifa (1887) 236 The upper fragment..the ditto of which is to be found at Irbid.
b. Cloth of the same material; chiefly plural, in suit of dittos: a suit of clothes of the same material and colour throughout.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > made of specific material > of same material or colour throughout
suit of dittos1756
ditto-suit1892
1756 Connoisseur (ed. 2) No. 77. 460 A snuff-coloured suit of ditto with bolus buttons.
1787 Microcosm (1793) II. No. 29. ⁋16 To..rescue a suit of Dittos from revilings.
1817 W. Beloe Sexagenarian (1818) 52 His suit of clothes was made of what the young men of that day called Ditto.
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 191 A sober suit of brown or snuff-coloured dittos such as beseemed his profession.
1883 J. Payn Thicker than Water ix He was never seen in dittos even in September.
c. A succession of the same thing; a repetition.
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the world > action or operation > repeating > [noun] > instance of
reviea1592
reprise1607
tautology1639
repeat1855
retake1882
ditto1887
redo1949
riff1952
1887 R. Cleland True to a Type I. 112 Picnics..form an ever-recurring ditto.
4. For ditty n. 3.
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a1680 T. Goodwin Of Object Justif. Faith i. i. ix, in Wks. (1697) IV. 49 The declared Ditto of his Song.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as ditto-suit; ditto-saying adj.
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the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > [adjective]
anmodOE
accordantc1350
concordable1393
ogrant?a1400
whole1413
agreeing1440
communala1470
concordant1477
agreeablea1525
greeinga1547
one-hearted?1584
consenting1589
well-tuned1592
consentient1622
concording1627
unanimousa1631
unanimate1633
homodox1656
concurrent1660
concerted1673
of one lip1677
homodoxian1716
harmonious1724
concurring1732
assenting1752
one-voiced1821
solidary1841
solidaire1845
solid1855
ditto-saying1892
assented1907
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > set or suit of clothes > [noun] > made of specific material > of same material or colour throughout
suit of dittos1756
ditto-suit1892
1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 May 7/1 Knots..that cannot be untied by loud banality or ditto-saying Gladstonianism.
1893 Daily News 5 Apr. 7/1 No change is recorded in ditto suits.
Derivatives
ˈditto v. (a) to produce a ‘ditto’ or duplicate of; to match; (b) to say or do the same as another person; to agree.
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1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 162 Where will you ditto our fall? It whips English weather by a long chalk.
1890 Army & Navy Gaz. 4 Jan. ‘Dittoing’ the ships of other powers.
1890 Army & Navy Gaz. 4 Jan. What is the Dupuy de Lôme to be ‘dittoed’ with?
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 299 They are sulking in their tents and we are dittoing in ours.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/1 No, Mr. Balfour knew nothing of Lord Lansdowne's communication. ‘Nor I,’ dittoed Lord Cranborne.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 592 Quite so, Mr Bloom dittoed.
ˈdittoism n.
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the world > action or operation > repeating > [noun]
reiteration?a1425
iteration1477
itering1530
repetition?1550
iteratinga1593
repeat1667
repeating1671
ringing of changes1734
dittoism1884
ofteninga1889
1884 ‘Judge Wiglittle’ 10 Years Police Judge vii. 42 The wear and tedium of court-house dittoism.
ˈdittoship n. exact repetition or reproduction; sameness.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > identity > [noun]
oneness?c1225
identity1545
indifferency1569
selfsameness1577
sameness1581
said1623
homogeneity1625
indistinction1644
indifference1656
sameliness1662
identicalness1677
undistinguishableness1727
indistinguishableness1731
self-identity1866
dittoship1869
identicality1875
indistinguishability1885
sameyness1977
1869 H. Bushnell Women's Suffrage vii. 16 When a woman has set herself up for a practical dittoship with men.
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a. With capital initial. A proprietary name in the U.S. for a kind of duplicating machine that reproduces copies from a master.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > photocopying > devices for making copies
polygraph1803
copier1917
ditto1919
1919 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 1 July 149/2 Duplicator Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill... Ditto... Claims use since Dec. 16, 1918.
1936 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 22 Dec. 781/2 Ditto, Incorporated, Chicago, Ill...Ditto... For electrically operated duplicating machines.
1967 R. R. Karch & E. J. Buber Offset Processes 536 Ditto, a small offset press; a duplicator.
1971 Sci. Amer. May 63/1 (advt.) The typical office fairly bulges with typewriters, copiers, dictating machines, dittos—everything to record and circulate the printed word.
b. A ditto mark (Additions below).
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > symbol placed under word to be repeated
ditto mark1879
ditto1933
1933 [see ditto mark n. at Additions].
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ditto mark n. a symbol (″) representing the word ‘ditto’, placed under the word or number to be repeated.
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society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > symbol placed under word to be repeated
ditto mark1879
ditto1933
1879 Harvard Lampoon VIII. 134/1 One town clerk..was unfortunate enough to show off his knowledge of the ditto-mark (″), which means, as our readers doubtless know, ‘the same’, when placed underneath a word or number.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. ii. xiv. 195 There now unrolled about a foot of paper with ditto marks under ‘item’ and a long line opposite each ditto.
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ditto v. North American, to copy (a document) by means of a Ditto machine.
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1980 Maledicta 3 ii. 252 Prewitt & Schaeffer dittoed a 9-page Contalk, An Abridged Lexicon and Notes on Contemporary Prison Slang (1962) and Tamony kindly provided me with all the card-file information in his dittoed version (1963).
ˈdittoed adj. reproduced by a Ditto machine.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > reproducing or repeating in a copy > photocopying > photocopied
dittoed1955
photoduplicated1965
1955 Biometrics 11 42 Tukey, J. W., ‘The Problem of Multiple Comparisons’, unpublished dittoed notes, Princeton University, 396 pp., 1953.
1969 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 15 38 An extensive ‘underground’ literature—papers which are privately circulated in dittoed form and read and criticized before they appear in journals.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
dittov.
/ˈdɪtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈdɪdoʊ/ 1.
a. transitive. To perform a previously mentioned action on (a different person or thing).In early use in imitation of a table, list, etc., which uses the word ‘ditto’ or the ditto mark to indicate the repetition of a previous item (see ditto n. 2a).
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the world > action or operation > repeating > repeat (an action) [verb (transitive)]
renovela1325
reiterate?a1425
replicate?a1425
repeat?1440
iter1530
iterate?1548
redouble1580
redo1598
second1610
answer1613
renewa1616
ingeminate1625
reiter1634
double1645
reperform1651
rename1665
rehandle1697
retracta1699
rehearse1700
re-enact1819
1816 Morning Post 5 Sept. For Ditto to recommend liberating Napoleon... For Ditto to ditto dittoing Bill Soames.
1860 F. B. Head Horse & his Rider 136 1. Of cutting off all our sheep's tails. 2. Of dittoing the tails of all dogs that take care of sheep.
1940 R. F. King Holiday Homicide (2016) xii. 76 I did just that, eying the landing stage of Wharf House while steaming along the starboard side, and eying the river for the Manhattan Underseas Contracting Company's tug while dittoing the portside.
2008 P. E. Abresch If they ask for Hand, only give them Finger 124 I checked the lock on the front door,..then dittoed the lock on the door to the back deck.
b. intransitive. To do the same thing as someone else previously mentioned; to perform a previously mentioned action.
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1838 C. Webbe Man about Town II. 83 He bowed to Snubbs, and Snubbs dittoed to him.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 299 They are sulking in their tents and we are dittoing in ours.
1946 Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-eye Gaz. 8 Mar. 10/4 Ken Thompson..broke through the Philco defense for a lay-in shot and Milt Titus dittoed for the winning count.
2011 E. Horton Just Compass 6 While Chris was doing the family rounds in England, Sari was dittoing in Israel.
c. transitive. To express agreement with (an opinion, statement, feeling, etc.); to echo, repeat, reiterate (something said or written by another). Also with direct speech as object. Cf. to say ditto to at ditto n. 2b.
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the mind > language > speech > repetition > repeat [verb (transitive)]
doublec1380
naitc1400
reportc1405
repeat1427
renewa1464
iterate1533
resume1535
to run over ——1538
redouble1580
to go over ——1583
re-say1583
reclaim1590
ingeminate1594
reword1604
reassume1631
reutter1632
oversay1639
to fetch over1642
reassert1647
the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)]
to go ineOE
cordc1380
consentc1386
covin1393
condescend1477
agree1481
correspond1545
concur1590
to fall in1602
suffrage1614
to hit it1634
colour1639
to take with ——1646
to be with1648
to fall into ——1668
to run in1688
to think with1688
meet1694
coincide1705
to go in1713
to say ditto to1775
to see with ——1802
sympathize1828
1872 Once a Week 16 Mar. 263/1 He pointed out certain groups of flowers, and remarked that they were the best or the second-best. I dittoed and dittoed his observations.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 22 Mar. 2/1 No, Mr. Balfour knew nothing of Lord Lansdowne's communication. ‘Nor I,’ dittoed Lord Cranborne.
1953 S. Bagchi Inductive Reasoning iii. 47 Gangesa only dittoes the criticism that has been propounded by Sriharsa.
2013 N. E. Edelen After While you Wonder 126 When Knight dittoed that sentiment, Wes wasn't surprised.
2. transitive. To replicate (something); to match (something), esp. in quality.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy
counterfeit1362
to take out1530
take1538
reduplicate1570
imitate1590
counter-make1595
ingeminate1625
replicate1661
recopy1684
takea1715
reproduce1838
duplicate1860
facsimile1862
carbon copy1914
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > find or produce an equal to
match1596
cope1600
parallel1609
parallelize1669
1837 New Sporting Mag. Oct. 209 I don't think that coorse ever was dittoed, though they say there's nothing new under the sun.
1873 Gentleman's Mag. June 722 Port at one hundred and ten, and that cannot be dittoed at one hundred and anything, is no joke.
1890 Army & Navy Gaz. 4 Jan. ‘Dittoing’ the ships of other powers.
1922 B. K. Sarkar Futurism of Young Asia ii. 110 The mystical and other-worldly leanings of Christianity may be dittoed by the Hindus, Buddhists and Jainas also.
2013 @TheHunnyBun 26 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Mar. 2022) LOVE @bellathorne look last night... Her 'do can easily be dittoed w/ The Hunny Bun!
3. transitive. North American. Also with capital initial. To make (a copy of a document) by means of a Ditto machine (see ditto n. Additions a); to copy (a document) using a Ditto machine.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy > photocopy, etc.
photoduplicate1954
1939 Sioux County (Iowa) Index 7 Apr. Arvin and Johnny dittoed a copy of some Indian sign language for each pupil in our room.
1971 ‘A. Cross’ Theban Myst. iii. 59 Each of you get your poem dittoed so we can each have a copy.
2015 B. D. Dooley in F. T. Cullen et al. Challenging Criminol. Theory (2017) ii. 49 Hirschi cited the manuscript as having been mimeographed in his earlier work, but he later recollected that it was actually dittoed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2022).
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