Usually means: Short, simple, catchy song or poem.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Ditty:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. ditty: Merriam-Webster
  2. ditty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ditty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ditty: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ditty: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ditty, ditty: Wordnik
  7. ditty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ditty: Wiktionary
  9. ditty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ditty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ditty: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ditty, ditty: Dictionary.com
  13. ditty: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ditty: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ditty (Paperboy song), Ditty (disambiguation), Ditty (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ditty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ditty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ditty: Rhymezone
  19. Ditty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ditty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ditty: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ditty: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ditty: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ditty: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. ditty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DITTY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ditty: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DITTY: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ditty, ditty: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ditty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (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:  Short for ditty bag. [A small bag used to carry one's personal effects or toiletries while traveling.]

Similar:
duettino, ditty bag, double dactyl, tiddley, dicky-bird, dactylic, diddly, dite, dabbity, duan, more...

Types:
ballad, blues, carol, chant, chorus, dirge, elegy, epic, hymn, jingle, more...

Phrases:
ditty bag, ditty bags, ditty box, ditty boxes, Pretty Little Ditty, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, popular, doleful, mournful, simple, plaintive, ancient, sentimental, liquid, english


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Similar:
duettino, ditty bag, double dactyl, tiddley, dicky-bird, dactylic, diddly, dite, dabbity, duan, more...

Types:
ballad, blues, carol, chant, chorus, dirge, elegy, epic, hymn, jingle, more...

Phrases:
ditty bag, ditty bags, ditty box, ditty boxes, Pretty Little Ditty, jaunty ditty, gaiety ditty, wrote quote blurb ditty, quote blurb ditty, wrote quote article blurb ditty, ditty bit, more...

Adjectives:
little, old, popular, doleful, mournful, simple, plaintive, ancient, sentimental, liquid, english



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