单词 | love ditty |
释义 | > as lemmaslove ditty love ditty n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > tale or song of love > love-song love songa1350 love-layc1450 love dittya1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 35 In hir necke you did loue ditties peepe. 1694 N. H. Ladies Dict. at Singing A Fidler..gained a fortune..by procuring and humming over some Love ditties. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 476 I..Who for Two thousand Years, or rather more, Have sung the like Love-ditties o're and o're. 1798 W. Jackson Four Ages xxv. 358 That peculiarly fine melody appropriated to the hundredth psalm, was sung to a popular love-ditty. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. vii. 29 And frame love ditties passing rare. 1890 E. S. Hartland Sci. Fairy Tales (1891) i. 7 The women at their wheels; and while they spin they sing love ditties. 2005 TNT Mag. 7 Mar. 66/1 But the tunes are mere grains of sand, while the lyrics are abysmal, winsome little love ditties. < as lemmas |
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