Used in a Sentence

ditty

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ditty.

Editorial note

The parsers can accept or reject things with duplicate keys, or they can play a nice little ditty through the speakers.

Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A short, simple verse or song.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of ditty gathered in one view.

noun

A short, simple verse or song.

noun

A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.

verb

To sing; to warble a little tune.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for ditty.

noun

A short, simple verse or song.

noun

A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.

verb

To sing; to warble a little tune.

noun

Ellipsis of ditty bag. [A small bag used to carry one's personal effects or toiletries while traveling.]

Example sentences

1

The parsers can accept or reject things with duplicate keys, or they can play a nice little ditty through the speakers.

2

That lets ditty-writers cash in on any fortuitous fads they manage to stumble into, but doesn't bog down our culture in molasses...

3

The non-programmers aren't going to want to ditty around with copying files from a CD, they will just want to run setup.exe.

4

Young's little ditty had a profound influence on me; I'm still a prick, but a considerably less smug prick.

5

Reminds me of this little ditty from the 1980's when phones were still decidedly dumb and - would you believe it - still wired.

6

To the point that European and American artifacts of the same type and same era look like the Dell Ditty compared to the iPod Touch.

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Even the Dell Ditty got some favorable press under that premise.

8

Heck, people were even championing the Dell Ditty in forums...

9

I personally rather regret the automatic recitation of Arne's ditty when visiting the page.

10

Hey all--Brian here, I built this little ditty.

11

(Flipped to the page after and found a lovely ditty about tea): There is a trickling, a grating, a stutter of cinders or light.

12

> I personally rather regret the automatic recitation of Arne's ditty when visiting the page.

Quote examples

1

I looked into it and daringfireball.net doesn't provide a rel="alternate" for their rss feed so my little feed discovery ditty won't work for them.

2

In making this remark, we are voicing the assumption that Being -- thought as such -- can no longer be called 'Being.' Being as such is other than itself, so decisively other that it even 'is' not." This obscure ditty[1] is from Nietzsche, Vol.

3

(The Bibbi-Babka Ditty was one such, a version of Chubby Checker's "Limbo Rock" that must be sung while baking delicious Myposian pastries known as Bibbi-Babkas.) So editing them out or replacing them with generic music, as was done for example with the rerelease of Daria which had all its popular background music removed, isn't an option.

4

Consider this ditty: > He saw a carrot and had to grab it, > His hunger was like a starving rabbit > To write the second line, the model had to satisfy two constraints at the same time: the need to rhyme (with "grab it"), and the need to make sense (why did he grab the carrot?).

Proper noun examples

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The television series Perfect Strangers is probably never, ever going to be rereleased, and you can blame the Bibbi-Babka Ditty.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use ditty in a sentence?

The parsers can accept or reject things with duplicate keys, or they can play a nice little ditty through the speakers.

What does ditty mean?

A short, simple verse or song.

What part of speech is ditty?

ditty is commonly used as noun, verb.