[
US
/ˈdɪtoʊ/
]
[ UK /dˈɪtəʊ/ ]
[ UK /dˈɪtəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- a mark used to indicate the word above it should be repeated
VERB
-
repeat an action or statement
The next speaker dittoed her argument
How To Use ditto In A Sentence
- MyDD's Todd Beeton offers praise for Listening to America: Democratic Platform for Change, the Obama teams suite of tools for collaboratively crafting a party platform -- and heartily mocks Rush Limbaugh's plan to have the writing parties "infiltrated" by Dittoheads. Daily Digest: Netroots Grapples with Obama's Ideology
- Both derive from the Latin word for house village, a collection of houses, is also linked in English, ditto the “-vile” suffix meaning city. Worse than I thought in Iowa - The Panda's Thumb
- I complained and was told I could have only 500 words; ditto, then 700 words.
- If you're standing behind said person on a staircase or an escalator, ditto. Times, Sunday Times
- A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
- The birds, as well as those of the Nurtung river, are the water-ouzel, the greyish-blue water-chat, the red and black ditto with a white head - top, and the black bird, _durn-durns_ or bird producing that cry occurs, but not in great numbers. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
- Ditto those aged in new oak barrels. Times, Sunday Times
- Ditto any suggestion of patriotic fervour. The Times Literary Supplement
- She peeked inside the trunk first, but it was empty. Ditto the highboys. The wardrobe, though was half-full of what appeared to be very, very old winter coats.
- The Duchess of Cambridge looks like a fairy-tale princess because she is slim and pulchritudinous, but ostensibly it's the long, blow-dried locks that ice the cake; ditto her potential lady in waiting, sister Pippa. The Taming of 'The Do'