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Catchy   Listen
adjective
Catchy  adj.  
1.
Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.
2.
Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.
3.
Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind. "It (the fox's scent) is... flighty or catchy, if variable."





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"Catchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... asked, why the defendants, if they do not accomplish their spells through black magic, style themselves 'The Sorcery Company'—and so mislead the public? Obviously they do so purely for advertisement. 'The Sorcery Company' is an attractive title, a 'catchy' title, and for this reason, which is surely a legitimate one, since it is strictly in accordance with the prevailing custom of advertisement—the firm of Hamar, Curtis and Kelson adopted it. They did not expect—they were not so extraordinarily foolish as to expect—any ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... was ringing with a chorus from three hundred throats as three hundred students poured out of doors, and over-flowed the ridge and spilled down the broad steps, making a babel of musical tongues; while fitting itself to every catchy college air known to Sunrise came the ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... smiles and peals of laughter. They have a strange preference for the minor key in music, for the dirge. No wonder when our bands would play lively music that they were quite ready to take up the catchy airs, but they would add a mournful cadence to the most stirring of our American airs. After awhile I found that the music oftenest rendered by the cathedral organ was the Aguinaldo March. I took the liberty to inform the commanding officer and that tune was stopped. After the surrender, ...
— An Ohio Woman in the Philippines • Emily Bronson Conger
... you, Mum," said Mrs. Viney, "I should take and send for the doctor. There's a lot of catchy complaints a-going about just now. My sister's eldest—she took a chill and it went to her inside, two years ago come Christmas, and she's never been the same ...
— The Railway Children • E. Nesbit


Words linked to "Catchy" :   attention-getting, appealing, hard, difficult, catch


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