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• n  a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)

• World War I ditty .
• It was a time when, despite the opulence of gifts in many homes, the people sang with fervor, in a peculiar popular ditty, that they just wanted to keep what they had.
• Sample Said the Gramophone post: What seems at first like a jingle is in fact a wistful complaint, or rather it's a jingle for post-industrial angst; a psych-pop ditty that sounds .

News & Articles

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• Stock Downgrades: Legg Mason, Inc. Carried Out Feet First
  Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks.So went a delightful little ditty from 1953. Alas, riots in Istanbul have now become the
  June 12, 2013 - Nasdaq
• Sean Paul Debuts 'Other Side of Love'
  Filed under: Reggae , Songs After debuting his fifth album, Tomahawk Technique , last year, Sean Paul returns with an upbeat dance track, "Other Side of Love." Centered on issues that plague a relationship, Sean hits hot topics on the Benny Blanco and the Cataracs-produced electro ditty. "Baby you don't have to keep looking through my phon/ If something's going on, girl, you'd already know," he ...
  June 7, 2013 - The Boombox
• What One Soccer Game Says About the Zany World of Georgian Politics
  The game opened with a ditty by the prime minister's rapper son, naturally.        
  June 6, 2013 - The Atlantic

Quotes

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• Amelie Mauresmo in Malaysia Star
  She (Daniilidou) is a more aggressive player than Ditty,said Mauresmo.
• Tilda Swinton in Edinburgh Evening News
  Ms Swinton said: "Come rain or shine, having had our porridge, we're going to meet at Festival Square. We'll chat, read papers, suck a lolly, whatever. Then at exactly 11am The Avalon Boys' soft shoe ditty At the Ball will start. It's a song from...
• Joey McIntyre in Boston Globe (registration)
  A little ditty called 'Good Vibrations,' maybe you've heard of it,jokes McIntyre.)