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ditties

ditties is the plural of ditty.

ditties is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ditty.

Meaning of ditty

Noun

ditty (plural ditties)

  1. A short, simple verse or song.
    • religious, martial, or civil ditties[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC
  2. A saying or utterance, especially one that is short and frequently repeated.
    • O, too high ditty for my simple rime.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 50

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Questions about ditties

What is ditties the plural of?
Ditties is the plural of ditty.

Words near ditties in the dictionary

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

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