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Definition of La-di-da
1. Adjective. Affectedly genteel.
Similar to: Pretentious
Derivative terms: Grandiosity
Definition of La-di-da
1. Adjective. Disdainful description of pretension or haughtiness. ¹
2. Interjection. Expression of disdain for pretension or haughtiness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of La-di-da
Literary usage of La-di-da
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"'Arry thinks ¡t very good fun To puff his cheap cigar Into the faces of every
one While cluing the la-di-da. ..."
2. Half-hours with the Highwaymen: Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of by Charles George Harper (1908)
"Like the more or less famous music-hall character, "la-di-da," of whom he must
surely have been the ancestor, he was scarcely worth robbing. ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1874)
"And the iconoclast mopped the water from his weak eyes, while his neighbour
warbled in an undertone, " The la-di-da ladies to Old Harry are gone, ..."
4. Letters from Khartoum: Written During the Siege by Frank Power (1885)
"... has his feet upon the table singing :i German version of la-di-da. I can't
tell how anxious I am to hear about all at home * # * * * Yours, FRANK POWER. ..."
5. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"Since that time la-di-da is often met with in the same sense as lardy-dardy: Punch,
... 19, 1888, 296": "Let none of the la-di-da lady-killers who pester ..."
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