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Definition of Dittying
1. ditty [v] - See also: ditty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dittying
Literary usage of Dittying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Speech of Com. Jesse Duncan Elliot, U.S.N., Delivered in Hagerstown, Md. on by Jesse Duncan Elliott (1844)
"... hoth wet and dry, have heen dittying my name to their noisy charges, as of
yore, that of the British Giant, who ate children for ..."
2. Adams' New Musical Dictionary of Fifteen Thousand Technical Words, Phrases by John Stowell Adams (1865)
"A short, simple, plaintive air, or short ballad, containing a pathetic story ;
to warble. dittying. The singing of ditties. Div. An abbreviation of Divisi. ..."
3. The Tribute: A Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Poems by Various Authors by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Charles Tennyson Turner (1837)
"LISTEN, Youth ! oh listen, listen To my dittying lyre and song! She whose eyes
so gently glisten Cannot will thee wrong! O that unto thee as me Deep ..."
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