Word.ws English Dictionary

ditting

ditting is the present participle and gerund of dit.

Meaning of dit

Verb

dit (third-person singular simple present dits, present participle ditting, simple past and past participle ditted)

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal) To stop up; block (an opening); close (compare Scots dit).
  2. (obsolete) To close up.
    • that I would haue thought my sincere plainnesse in that first part vpon that subiect, should haue ditted the mouth of the most enuious Momus1599, James VI and I, Basilikon Doron

See all 8 meanings of dit

Questions about ditting

What is ditting the present participle and gerund of?
Ditting is the present participle and gerund of dit.

Words near ditting in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ditting (page history and authors); dit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ditting.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ditting. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.