Synonyms for ditty
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dit-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪt i |
Définition of ditty
Origin :- "short song," c.1300, from Old French ditie "composition, poem, treatise," from Latin dictatum "thing dictated," neuter past participle of dictare "dictate" (see dictate (v.)).
- noun song
- This to his own horse and off he would go, humming some ditty to the lazy hobble of his nag.
- Extract from : « Lords of the North » by A. C. Laut
- That is not in the tone of the ditty sung by the Tripe Skewer.
- Extract from : « The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories » by Andrew Lang
- What business had Jack Turner to be singing that ditty under his window?
- Extract from : « The Girls of St. Olave's » by Mabel Mackintosh
- And thereupon he began a ditty he had composed during the war.
- Extract from : « The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch » by Edward Stratemeyer
- You and a million others recite that ditty, or variations of it every day of the week.
- Extract from : « Unspecialist » by Murray F. Yaco
- Not unless you are Lancashire born and bred, for it is a complete Lancashire ditty.
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- "I hope you will never salute my ears with your American ditty," said Lady Keith.
- Extract from : « The Wide, Wide World » by Susan Warner
- When out of the castle himself he perceived, His voice in a ditty again he upheaved.
- Extract from : « Signelil » by Anonymous
- It was a ditty that Johannes thought he had often heard the nurse-maids sing.
- Extract from : « The Quest » by Frederik van Eeden
- He continued his ditty, in spite of the angry glances of his leader.
- Extract from : « Jack Sheppard, Vol. III (of III) » by W. Harrison Ainsworth
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