singsong
has definitions from the fields of music,rhetoric
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)The lazy sing-song was spaced in time like the drone of a bumble-bee . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (music) speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong
Used in print (R. Leslie Gourse, With Gall and Honey....)They singsonged the portion at the teacher , who accompanied them in an off-key baritone and spurred them on with the stick . Related terms |
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[ verb ] move as if accompanied by a singsong
Examples "The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting
Examples "their chantlike intoned prayers" "a singsong manner of speaking" Related terms |
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