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di

interjectioncommon in dialogue

  • Canada//di//
  • Australia//diː//
  • India//ɖiː//

A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

interjection

  1. 1

    A meaningless syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.

    The chorus goes like this: "di di di di dum, da di da".

Etymology

imitative.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).