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Definition of ditty in English: dittynounPlural ditties ˈdɪtiˈdɪdi A short, simple song. 小曲；小调 a lovely little music-hall ditty 一首动听的歌舞小曲。 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
OriginMiddle English: from Old French dite 'composition', from Latin dictatum (neuter) 'something dictated', from dictare 'to dictate'. Rhymesbanditti, 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. 小曲；小调 a lovely little music-hall ditty 一首动听的歌舞小曲。 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
OriginMiddle English: from Old French dite ‘composition’, from Latin dictatum (neuter) ‘something dictated’, from dictare ‘to dictate’. |