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Singsong  v. i.  To write poor poetry. (R.)





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"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books



... and plantain men carry their fruit fastened to poles. They move along quite easily with two hundred pounds or more of fruit. On the street and in the market place we hear the singsong notes of the vegetable man telling us of the excellence of his wares. These he carries on his head on an immense board, ...
— A Little Journey to Puerto Rico - For Intermediate and Upper Grades • Marian M. George
 
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... wedding chorus, which I was willing to wager was the Japanese "Miserere"; but this error may have its significance after all. To us, in short, the music was execrable. A falsetto, and a grinding, singsong falsetto at that—the most disagreeable sound I ever heard in music—is very common, and highly esteemed. The instruments resemble banjos, and there is a harsh kind of drum accompaniment; but there is one larger string instrument, the Japanese piano, upon ...
— Round the World • Andrew Carnegie
 
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Words linked to "Singsong" :   singing, displace, rhythmical, rhythmic, chant, modulation, move, intone



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