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# ditty

«ditty» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short, simple song or poem, often cheerful or funny** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a ditty, ditties)

### meaning for a pupil

A short, simple song or poem, often cheerful or funny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In The Wind in the Willows, Ratty makes up little songs, like «Ducks' Ditty» («All along the backwater, / Through the rushes tall, / Ducks are a-dabbling, / Up tails all!»). Toad sings boastful ditties about himself. In music lessons a ditty is an easy tune to learn.

### examples

- Ratty sang his ducks' ditty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x1)
- She hummed a little ditty while she cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x2)
- The ducks did not like Ratty's ditty very much. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x3)
- We learned a ditty about the days of the week. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x4)
- Toad sang a conceited ditty about how clever he was. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x5)
- The advert has a catchy ditty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/#x6)

### note

Plural ditties (y — ies). Slightly old-fashioned, friendly word.

### In the corpora

- [So he sits on the bank and makes up a little song about them, «Ducks' Ditty».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ditty» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/ditty/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.