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DITTY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ditty mean?
• DITTY (noun)
The noun DITTY has 1 sense:
1. a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)
Familiarity information: DITTY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ditty" is a kind of...):
Context examples
Never did choice or dainty ditty of Provence or Languedoc sound more sweetly in the ears than did the rough-tongued Saxon to the six who strained their ears from the blazing keep.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a favorite ditty of the late lamented Professor Moriarty.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And I thought it was a ditty rather too dolefully appropriate for a company that had met such cruel losses in the morning.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“I sang that ditty in Hordle ale-house ere I ever thought to be an archer myself,” quoth he.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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