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Singsong   Listen
adjective
Singsong  adj.  Drawling; monotonous; having a monotonous cadence.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books



... the older boys and girls sat on the stairs in groups of twos and threes, while from the upper hall the scurry of feet, and the singsong cry that London Bridge was falling down, showed what the little ones were playing. It was after eleven o'clock when the wagonettes came rumbling up to the door. The rain had stopped, and a few stars were beginning to struggle ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston

... Parson Lamb, sometimes gaunt old Scotch John Cleave, the postmaster, rarely some noted visitor, who either from choice or ill-health lingered on into the winter, made a speech. There were declamations, debates, the interminable, singsong ballads of the frontier, usually accompanied by French harp or fiddle. Families were few, bachelors much in the majority; I remember that at one of the community affairs there were eighteen bachelors out of a ...
— A Mountain Boyhood • Joe Mills

... Hagar shook the tangle of unkempt, black hair away from her moonlike face, and began talking in a soft monotone, her voice now and then rising to a shrill singsong. ...
— Good Indian • B. M. Bower



Words linked to "Singsong" :   intonation, intone, singalong, intoned, displace, intonate, cantillate, vocalizing, pitch contour, move, modulation, chant, rhythmic, singing, rhythmical



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