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an expression of retardedness. its also a lack of knowing an answer. a dee dah is also a person that is just flatout stupid in a funny way
Tim: yo whats this answer yo??
Maeeert: DEE DAH!

Tom: yo you see that girl oveer there?
Chris: dude shes a bumbling dee dah!
dee dah by jfrbdhjsmfd November 21, 2011
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La Dee Dah 

Used to express "what you are doing at the moment" - can be a state of mind- doing everything but what you should be doing, procrastination.
She was expected at the church bizzare to help set up tabels, but instead,she did the "la dee dah" ; she rearrangend the knick knacks on her dresser, cleaned the mirror in the bathroom, checked e-mail, and moved a table lamp from one side of the table to another....
La Dee Dah by tlester May 1, 2009

la'dee'dah 

la'dee'dah , A fun and french sounding euphemism for “making whoopee.” A family term that's safe and vague enough yet understood that its a romantic time for adults.
Let's fast forward or skip through this part of the movie, I thinks it's gettin' to the part for la'dee'dah.
la'dee'dah by granolathug March 20, 2017

zip-a-dee-doo-dah 

This is used as a highly ironic response to somebody's last statement in a long line of statements, usually full of boring detail, about things that are only to do with them.

Such things as the tiny little facts about their life, lover, job, achievements etc that are only interesting to the person telling about them ... but to anybody else? Nope.

From the song of the same name "zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, wonderful feeling, wonderful day"
Kevin: Well I got this new bank account and no they don't charge me for checks but of course I had to personalize the checks so I got this photo of me brushing my teeth and photoshopped my name in my mouth K-E-V-I-N one letter on each tooth from left to right or from right to left so they are don't spell NIVEK of course so you know, right, so that everybody can see it's me by name but anyway of course I don't have the letters tattooed on my teeth in real life but who knows I might just do that because it's a statement about me and you know that's a good thing, anyway as I was saying I also managed to get that same photo on the Visa card that the bank gave me too which is really cool so then..

Chuck: Well, zip-a-dee-doo-dah. Life is wonderful, ain't it?

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah 

Alice: Oh they make me so mad! They think they can be mean to me just because I'm smaller than they are!
Caterpillar: Zip-a-dee-doo-dah.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah by Katie654321 September 11, 2016
An inhabitant of Sheffield - as defined by the unfortunates who live in surrounding towns.

Origin: Sheffield pronunciation of second person singular (thee and tha - dee and dah).
Also a Sheffield art movement as propogated by Carlos Barcode (Deedahism).
"They're all fookin deedahs."
Deedah by Boris Fooshamble August 22, 2009
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