Hey Diddle Diddle
Cat's fiddle tune
Hey Diddle Diddle is a traditional English nursery rhyme, famous for its nonsensical imagery: a cat playing a fiddle, a cow jumping over the moon, a laughing dog, and a dish running away with a spoon.
The phrase sometimes appears as shorthand for childish nonsense or whimsy: It's all hey diddle diddle to me.
- nursery rhymeTraditional poem for young children
- cowFemale bovine
- moonNatural planetary satellite
- fiddleAdjust restlessly; folk violin
- catSmall furry housepet
dish · spoon · ran away · little dog · jumped · nursery · rhyme · Mother Goose · lullaby · nonsense · mother · goose · children · children's song · fairy tale · bedtime story · playful · whimsical
Hey Diddle Diddlerealist fiction
Stories portraying plausible events
naturalism · hard science fiction · encyclopedia entry · news report · police report
Hey Diddle Diddleelegy
Poem lamenting the departed
lament · requiem · lamentation · funeral oration · tragedy