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Definition of ditty in English: dittynounPlural ditties ˈdɪtiˈdɪdi A short, simple song. a lovely little music-hall ditty Example sentencesExamples - And for younger fans the ‘Great Harwood Blue’ uses a modern rap song for his ditty.
- A great political balladeer, he is at his superb best when singing melancholy personal ditties, with that soulful voice and tuneful guitar.
- Indeed, I muttered tuneless, dire ditties that I myself had composed.
- After a couple of songs the members sang ditties from the latest movies.
- While Robespierre ranted, he directed the band of the Garde Nationale and served up Jacobin ditties.
- The red legions sang the old ditty about Paul Scholes scoring goals, which is true again at long last.
- Alternatively, enjoy the day by composing a ditty about tonight's guest of honor at the Washington Hilton.
- Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
- Blink 182 play very fast punk-metal ditties that might be anthemic were they not furiously out of time.
- The repertoire includes military marches, old Japanese ditties, songs from kabuki theaters or yose variety theaters, and sometimes jazz.
- Despite these efforts to rely on wall-to-wall ditties, psalmodic chant still figures prominently in the Weekday liturgy.
- My nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Tiana can almost sing all the ditties and do her dances to the tunes.
- They sing the famous ditty, ‘Tom, Tom the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run.’
- Ballads have been penned, poems have been composed and ditties have been compiled.
- A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up.
- If you know only Kander's pop ditties (and, to my regret, I do), these three will surprise you.
- Not a word did he speak to the little girl, but began singing a little ditty, an old tune full of light and the sun's laughter.
- As though he has just come back from India and the great Maharishi, Brother JT songs resemble campfire ditties, with an odd tinge.
- The audience were all ears when the teams crooned ditties from the golden 80s.
- In her spare time, the lawyer likes to do nothing better than knock out a few ditties from the Great American Songbook on her baby grand piano.
Synonyms poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
Origin Middle English: from Old French dite 'composition', from Latin dictatum (neuter) 'something dictated', from dictare 'to dictate'. Rhymes banditti, bitty, chitty, city, committee, gritty, intercity, kitty, megacity, nitty-gritty, Pitti, pity, pretty, slitty, smriti, spitty, vittae, witty Definition of ditty in US English: dittynounˈdɪdiˈdidē A short, simple song. a lovely little music-hall ditty Example sentencesExamples - After a couple of songs the members sang ditties from the latest movies.
- In her spare time, the lawyer likes to do nothing better than knock out a few ditties from the Great American Songbook on her baby grand piano.
- They sing the famous ditty, ‘Tom, Tom the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run.’
- Ballads have been penned, poems have been composed and ditties have been compiled.
- While Robespierre ranted, he directed the band of the Garde Nationale and served up Jacobin ditties.
- And for younger fans the ‘Great Harwood Blue’ uses a modern rap song for his ditty.
- As though he has just come back from India and the great Maharishi, Brother JT songs resemble campfire ditties, with an odd tinge.
- Coates wry, muttered lyrics lend his ditties a mischievous if subdued charm.
- Despite these efforts to rely on wall-to-wall ditties, psalmodic chant still figures prominently in the Weekday liturgy.
- A great political balladeer, he is at his superb best when singing melancholy personal ditties, with that soulful voice and tuneful guitar.
- A remake of the lilting Irving Berlin ditty Blue Skies began playing as the lights came up.
- Blink 182 play very fast punk-metal ditties that might be anthemic were they not furiously out of time.
- Alternatively, enjoy the day by composing a ditty about tonight's guest of honor at the Washington Hilton.
- If you know only Kander's pop ditties (and, to my regret, I do), these three will surprise you.
- The red legions sang the old ditty about Paul Scholes scoring goals, which is true again at long last.
- Not a word did he speak to the little girl, but began singing a little ditty, an old tune full of light and the sun's laughter.
- My nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Tiana can almost sing all the ditties and do her dances to the tunes.
- The repertoire includes military marches, old Japanese ditties, songs from kabuki theaters or yose variety theaters, and sometimes jazz.
- The audience were all ears when the teams crooned ditties from the golden 80s.
- Indeed, I muttered tuneless, dire ditties that I myself had composed.
Synonyms poem, piece of poetry, lyric, sonnet, ode, limerick, rhyme, composition, metrical composition, piece of doggerel
Origin Middle English: from Old French dite ‘composition’, from Latin dictatum (neuter) ‘something dictated’, from dictare ‘to dictate’. |