(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."
Nitty
Definition:
(a.) Full of nits.
(a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet there is a tendency to switch off from this conversation as it moves from ambitious words and statements on to the nitty gritty of implementation.
(2) That’s a difficult exercise, particularly with all the lawyers involved in the process and looking at the nitty-gritty of every word that is written down,” Zarif told journalists during a visit to Madrid.
(3) "That kind of geographic splitting can certainly create opportunities for speciation, so it's a plausible mechanism, but I'd like to see a more extensive and fine-grained review of the evidence than Mark and his coauthors could cram into their paper – one that gets into the nitty-gritty of where the basins were, when the marine barriers between them would have appeared and disappeared, and what lived in them."
(4) • Lord Mandelson, writing in the Guardian , describes the process of shadow cabinet election as "an absurdity", but admits that New Labour had lost out because in government it had been too lazy to organise the grassroots, acting as if the nitty gritty of such work was beneath it.
(5) On the nitty-gritty side, one major concern has to be jobs.
(6) These are the moments commonly referred to as the "nitty gritty."
(7) But in terms of really getting to the nitty-gritty of telling people what impact that money is going to make, that comes a long, long way down.” According to an Ipsos Mori poll 54% of current donors choose to give to charities “that decide what to do based on evidence”, compared to 30% who give to charities whose activities are values--led.
(8) Over on Channel 4 Homeland is getting down to the nitty gritty end of its third season, with 1.8 million viewers watching the 10th of 12 episodes.
(9) It was a 125-page smorgasbord of vague targets and nitty-gritty measures, from "ensuring the UK remains one of the top destinations for foreign direct investment", to redrafting the little known Outer Space Act to capitalise on the UK's strength in building space vehicles.
(10) For Britain, by contrast, this is unprecedented governmental programme transparency, a step forward, real grownup, nitty-gritty stuff.
(11) That Frank Nitti - every week confounded by Elliot Ness."
(12) The nitty gritty of the merger deal is likely to take considerable management time and effort at a time when ITV cannot afford to take its eye off the battle it has with the BBC and BSkyB.
(13) Finance ministers might also succeed in bringing forward the date when capital can be injected into struggling bank, when they hammer out the nitty-gritty of the deal.
(14) But when it comes to the nitty-gritty, the brothers are very different.
(15) It was as if we felt the nitty gritty of organising at the grassroots was somehow beneath us.
(16) They are still behaving as if Old Trafford is a dream destination, somewhere anyone in the managerial world would love to come and have a go, conveniently ignoring the actual nitty gritty of the club's reduced cirmcumstances.
(17) The team, which includes researchers in seven countries and three continents, is trying to nail down the nitty-gritty details involved in turning insects into animal feed.
(18) It is pretty harsh on countries like South Africa which is doing a good job of protecting lions.” Robin Freeman, at the Zoological Society of London, UK, said: “While looking at things on aggregate is interesting, the real interesting nitty gritty comes in the details.
(19) This stuff, the nitty-gritty of governing, is boring; even worse than that is trying to turn political visions into actual laws.
(20) "It has not been involved in the nitty-gritty of fighting.