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noun

Singsong n.

Bad singing or poetry.

A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

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Etymology of 'Singsong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Singsong" Quotes from Famous Books

... of dogged obstinacy came into the man's eyes, but he did not look at me. He shifted his gaze uneasily, as he repeated almost in a singsong way, "go round the ...

— The Gold Bag • Carolyn Wells

... angry with himself for having brought them, and with Winny for having made him bring them; and he was angry with himself for being angry. But he couldn't help it. Their voices exasperated him. The children's voices, the high, reiterated singsong, "Where we goin'?" Winny's voice, poignantly soft, insufferably patient, answering them with all that tender silliness, that persistent, ...

— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair

... in his curious singsong tone, "does it not make your blood boil to see tyranny in ...

— The Book of All-Power • Edgar Wallace

... the rivulet subsided for awhile. But suddenly I heard the ex-soldier exclaim in drunken, singsong accents which came from the very centre of ...

— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... book again and read. He read steadily for a quarter of an hour in a monotonous, singsong voice, and John Minute slowly sat himself erect and listened with tense face and narrow eyelids to the record. He did not interrupt ...

— The Man Who Knew • Edgar Wallace

Words linked to "Singsong" : displace, move, intonate, chantlike, vocalizing, intonation, singalong, rhythmic, chant