zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.89 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
7
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
An exclamation of happiness.
adj
Characteristic of such a feeling.
Example Sentences
- "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, / My oh my, what a wonderful day / Plenty of sunshine headin' my way / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay"
- "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! What a treat this movie was for kids and adults alike."
- "If the newspapers and broadcasts are blaring “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-a/My, oh my, what a wonderful day” over and over, there’s a tendency to go down the road humming that tune, too, because you can’t get it out of your head. Are business conditions good? Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!"
- ""Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," Kate said. "This is better." She held her half-empty glass up."
- "It happened on one o' dem zip-a-dee-doo-dah days. Now that's the kind of day when you can't open your mouth without a song jump right out of it."
- "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah! Only one place in the world can give you that Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah feeling day after wonderful day."
Etymology
From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon