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dittied

dittied adjective: set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind). Also the simple past and past participle of ditty.

Adjective

dittied (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, obsolete) Set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind).
    • who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey...

Also used as

dittied is also the simple past and past participle of ditty.

Origin of dittied

From ditty + -ed.

Questions about dittied

What does dittied mean?
Dittied means set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind).
What part of speech is dittied?
Dittied is an adjective.

Words near dittied in the dictionary

  1. dittay
  2. dittays
  3. ditted
  4. Ditteridge
  5. ditti
  6. dittied
  7. ditties
  8. ditting
  9. dittle
  10. Dittman
  11. Dittmann

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