(v. t.) A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme.
(v. t.) A song; a lay; a little poem intended to be sung.
(v. i.) To sing; to warble a little tune.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They were mildly offensive," says Shapiro of their ditties.
(2) 12.22am BST The other politics ditty being shared rather widely at the present time is this one.
(3) There's a scene in Friday Night Dinner when Adam, a jingle writer by trade, gathers the family around a radio to hear his ditty for a car-insurance company.
(4) 'Marx had a soft spot for entrepreneurs,' Jeremy told me Once these sessions started Jeremy would also usually insist on at least one round of that rather repetitive ditty – One Man Went to Mow about farming a meadow.
(5) National anthem report: The Brazilian ditty skips along at pleasing pace, and all the players sing along.
(6) What you got a big booty,” is how the chorus to Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea’s derriere-themed ditty goes – over and over.
(7) The conceit – that he needs another rider so he can drive in the HOV lane in LA’s notoriously awful traffic – puts him in the car with pop superstars, singing along to both their own songs and classic pop ditties.
(8) But allow me to leave with one final recollection: at the Isle of Wight Festival, John Sebastian performed the song Darling Be Home Soon, a sentimental little ditty about friendship, self-understanding and hope.
(9) But of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
(10) This silenced the home support and had the City fans singing their favourite ditty.
(11) LL Cool J is hosting the ceremony for the third consecutive time – two years after his respectful hosting job in the wake of Whitney Houston’s unexpected death and less than a year after the April 2013 release of his remarkably questionable song Accidental Racist, the country ditty he made with Brad Paisely.
(12) Of course, like most football harangues, this well-worn little ditty is as one-eyed as it gets.
(13) It’s basically a remake of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s relatively harmless early 90s ditty, Baby Got Back , a musical romp celebrating women who carry what Mix-a-lot referred to as “healthy butts”.
(14) So it’s no great surprise that he’s hooked up with UK pop producer MNEK, who, along with creating his own forward-thinking, R&B-infused pop ditties, has produced and written for the cutting edge of UK pop (and the Saturdays).
(15) He might not be better than Zinedine Zidane, as the terrace ditty has it, but he has just upstaged a few of his contemporaries.
(16) Berlusconi, meanwhile, owner of Italy's three biggest private television channels, sought solace in the arms of Francesca Pascale , a former television showgirl famed for co-singing a ditty with the memorable catchphrase: "If you show a bit of thigh, the ratings go up."
(17) He is also known for his musical talents, performing musical theatre numbers at the Proms in 2012 and of course hosting the Oscars in 2013, attracting controversy for such ditties as We Saw Your Boobs.
(18) Or allergic to winsome ditties sung-spoken to primitive ukulele accompaniment.
(19) The Norwegians, singing 13th, scored no marks at all, for a very gentle ditty that sounded like, "By gum, jah no high dog", but apparently meant, "Never in my life will I think of leaving until I join the wind."
(20) He shoulder dances as he sings a little ditty: "The government sucks."
Doggerel
Definition:
(a.) Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes.
(n.) A sort of loose or irregular verse; mean or undignified poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imitating the white, vaudeville television love-to-hate wrestler Gorgeous George, his forecasts bragged the precise round he was going to win, sometimes combining such box-office larks with couplets of doggerel.
(2) Illustrations of attunements in analysis are attempted by means of doggerel verses about some patients.
(3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
(4) (Parody and doggerel and facetiousness are big features of Burns suppers.
(5) I'll have the real pleasure of performing the first poem I learned by heart when I was about 10 – Burns's To a Mouse , On Turning Her up in Her Nest With the Plough, November 1785, a poem which, like any great poem, continues to both further delight and to mean different, deeper things to me as I grow older – and then my actor friend Frances will chip in with a daft doggerel response of mine, From a Mouse .
(6) It is written in excruciating doggerel verse, with appallingly irritating rhymes and shapeless rhythms.
(7) The same principles of criticism apply to buildings as to literature: who wants pastiche and doggerel?
(8) And he recited for my benefit the doggerel that was very popular in this lovely part of the Erin Isle: "Ireland will be Ireland, When England was a Pup.