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singsong


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Singsong  \Sing"song`\,  n. 
  1.  Bad  singing  or  poetry. 
 
  2.  A  drawling  or  monotonous  tone,  as  of  a  badly  executed 
  song. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Singsong  \Sing"song`\,  a. 
  Drawling;  monotonous. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Singsong  \Sing"song`\,  v.  i. 
  To  write  poor  poetry.  [R.]  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  singsong 
  adj  :  uttered  in  a  monotonous  cadence  or  rhythm  as  in  chanting; 
  "their  chantlike  intoned  prayers";  "a  singsong  manner 
  of  speaking"  [syn:  {chantlike},  {intoned}] 
  n  1:  a  regular  and  monotonous  rising  and  falling  intonation 
  2:  (British)  informal  group  singing  of  popular  songs 
  v  1:  speak,  chant,  or  declaim  in  a  singsong 
  2:  move  as  if  accompanied  by  a  singsong;  "The  porters 
  singsonged  the  travellers'  luggage  up  the  mountain" 




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