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Dit vs Cit - What's the difference?

dit | cit |

As nouns the difference between dit and cit

is that dit is a ditty, a little melody while cit is townsman, city dweller.

As a verb dit

is to stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots {{term|dit|lang=sco}}.

dit

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ditten, .

Verb

  • To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
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    Etymology 2

    Variant of dite.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
    • No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit : / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].
  • (obsolete) A word; a decree.

    • Etymology 3

    Imitative.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

    • See also

    * dah

    Etymology 4

    Old English dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.

    Verb

    (ditt)
  • (obsolete) To close up.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 5

    Shortening.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • decimal digit

    • Anagrams

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    cit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, derogatory) townsman, city dweller
  • * 1856, , The Piazza
    • Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit , who would build his sole piazza to the north.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary

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