Ditted vs Dirted - What's the difference?
ditted | dirted |
(dit)
To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
(archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) A word; a decree.
(dirt)
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
As verbs the difference between ditted and dirted
is that ditted is (dit) while dirted is (dirt).ditted
English
Verb
(head)dit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ditten, .Verb
Etymology 2
Variant of dite.Noun
(en noun)- 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 [...].
Etymology 3
Imitative.See also
* dahEtymology 4
Old English dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.Etymology 5
Shortening.Anagrams
* ----dirted
English
Verb
(head)dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
