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adjective

Catchy adj.

Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.

Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.

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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Etymology of 'Catchy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Catchy" Quotes from Famous Books

... regular member of the Satellite Circus Company. His real name—plain Jimmy Green—was scornfully cast aside. Mr. Harris voted it slow and commonplace. After a good deal of thought and much indecision, he substituted the more catchy one of Bambo as being both novel and appropriate to the profession—Bambo, the musical dwarf; though why he was dubbed musical was always a puzzle to the poor little man, because nobody had ever ...

— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur

... All one admires in the Barbizon men - the lyric feeling of a Corot or the more dramatic note of a Rousseau - is missing in the modern Italian landscape as seen in these pictures. They are flippant in their catchy technique and in the ...

— The Galleries of the Exposition • Eugen Neuhaus

... not write, write a better book? I have no vain idle catchy words, but news in a nude form do you appreciate news, gold dug out of mud? then give me credit for what I have done rather than for what I have said. Read my later publications. So excuse the errors of a sourdough, keep ...

— Black Beaver - The Trapper • James Campbell Lewis

... tune of a catchy American popular air. Few of the dances had been Spanish. He waited, and at ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... of ten or twenty years would alone greatly cheapen silver is flatly contradicted by all previous experience. Of many statements of the fallacy, I take a recent one from the New York Times as the most terse and catchy for popular reading, and likewise ...

— If Not Silver, What? • John W. Bookwalter

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