Ditted vs Dittied - What's the difference?
ditted | dittied |
(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.
Set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind).
As a verb ditted
is (dit).As an adjective dittied is
set, sung, or composed as a ditty (of a specified kind).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
* ----dittied
English
Adjective
(-)- Who, with his soft pipe, and smooth-dittied song. — Milton.