Dit

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪt

From Middle English ditten, dütten, from Old English dyttan ("to stop up, close"), from Proto-Germanic *duttijaną, from *duttaz ("wisp"). Related to Old English dott ("dot, point"). More at dot.

Full definition of dit

Verb

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England) To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.

Related terms

• dottle

Variant of dite.

Noun

1. (archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vi:No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing;
  No song but did containe a louely dit:
  Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit ....
2. (obsolete) A word; a decree.

Imitative.

Noun

1. The spoken representation of a dot in radio and telegraph Morse code.

Old English dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To close up.

Anagrams

• IDT, it'd, TDI, TID