Singsong

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singsong \Sing"song`\, n.
     1. Bad singing or poetry.
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     2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed
        song.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singsong \Sing"song`\, a.
     Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Singsong \Sing"song`\, v. i.
     To write poor poetry. [R.] --Tennyson.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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: informal group singing of popular songs [syn: {singalong}]
       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"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "singsong":
     alliterating, alliteration, alliterative, assonance, assonant,
     belabored, blah, broken-record, chanting, chime, chiming,
     cliche-ridden, clockwork regularity, constancy, daily round,
     dingdong, drearisome, dreary, drone, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty,
     even pace, even tenor, everlasting, harping, humdrum,
     invariability, invariable, jingle, jingle-jangle, jog-trot,
     labored, long-winded, monologue, monotone, monotonous,
     monotonousness, monotony, near rhyme, orderliness, pitter-patter,
     prolix, regularity, repeated sounds, repetitiousness,
     repetitiveness, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, sameliness, sameness,
     slant rhyme, smoothness, stale repetition, tedious, tedium,
     treadmill, trot, undeviation, undifferentiation, uneventful,
     unnecessary repetition, unvariation, unvarying