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Definition: La-di-da |
La-di-daAdjective1. Affectedly genteel. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: La-di-daSynonyms: grandiose (adj), hifalutin (adj), highfalutin (adj), highfaluting (adj), hoity-toity (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | La-di-da, la-di-da, la la. (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "La-di-da" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "La-di-da" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 60% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Unclassified Items | 40% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "la-di-da"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | Превзет, Нафукан, превземки (airs and graces). (various references) | |
Chinese | 装模作 . (various references) | |
German | Affig (affected, apish, apishly, arty, conceited, ludicrous, ridiculous, silly, stuck up, too-too), Affektiert (affected, affectedly, drawling, finical, lackadaisical, mincing, pseud, smirkingly). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | a-di-dalay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, orotund, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky). (various references) | |
Romanian | Filfizon (coxcomb, Dandy, dandyish, dude, fop, jackanapes, Johnny, macaroni, Peacock), Care Îşi Dã Aere, Afectat (affected, affectedly, Arty, curious, demure, demurely, euphuistic, far fetched, finical, finicking, gushing, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, lackadaisical, mannered, miminy-piminy, mincing, namby-pamby, niminy-piminy, preciously, pretty, primly, recherche, scenic, self conscious, stilted, studied, swollen, theatrical). (various references) | |
Spanish | Repipi (hoity toity, twee), De Manera Afectada, Con Afectación, Afectado (affected, artificial, camp, foppish, influenced, mincing, niminy-piminy, poseur, posh, precious, stilted, strained, studied, twee, unnatural). (various references) | |
Turkish | Züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, spark, swell, toff), Havalı (airy, dashing, flash, flatulent, hot air, jaunty, la-di-dah, nifty, Nobby, ostentatious, pneumatic, posh, rakish, show off, showy, stylish, swagger, swanky, swell, swish, tonish). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Манірний, Франт (Dandy, Jimmy), "жинджик. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người m u mè (namby-pamby, poseur), người kiểu cách. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: alidad. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-i-l" | |
-2 letters: dada, dial, laid. | |
-3 letters: aal, add, aid, ail, ala, dad, dal, did, lad, lid. | |
-4 letters: aa, ad, ai, al, id, la, li. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-d-i-l" | |
+1 letter: alidade, alidads. | |
+2 letters: alidades. | |
+3 letters: adenoidal, cladodial, dandiacal, lapidated, palisaded, validated. | |
+4 letters: acidulated, additional, amygdaloid, didactical, dilapidate, dyadically, landladies, paradiddle, railroaded, taradiddle, vandalised, vandalized. | |
+5 letters: adrenalized, amygdaloids, deglaciated, delaminated, desalinated, dilapidated, dilapidates, discardable, endocardial, invalidated, paradiddles, radicalised, radicalized, revalidated, scandalised, scandalized, taradiddles, tarradiddle. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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