Ditto
['dɪtəʊ] or ['dɪto]
Definition
(verb.) repeat an action or statement; 'The next speaker dittoed her argument'.
Checker: Wade--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two "turned commas" ("), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition.
(adv.) As before, or aforesaid; in the same manner; also.
Checker: Maryann
Definition
n. that which has been said: the same thing.—adv. as before or aforesaid: in like manner.—n.pl. Ditt′os a suit of clothes of the same colour throughout.
Checked by Juliana
Examples
- Ditto, ditto, Mr. Brooke, laughed Meg, looking young and pretty again, as she nodded to him over the teapot. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- African ditto. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He has a sort of pinchbeck watch; ditto, ring; ditto, eyeglass. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Yorke and Miss Mann would darkly suggest ditto. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Huff, Bombay ditto; Mrs. Pice, the Lady of Pice the Director, &c. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Ditto at the performance with the tongue. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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