sing-songn.

Etymology: < sing v.¹ + song n.¹

1. A ballad, a piece of verse, having musical rather than poetical qualities, esp. one of a monotonous or jingling character.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > ballad

ballad1458

sing-song1609

street ballad1694

balladling1798

song ballad1832

border balladc1863

come-all-ye1892

slowie1939

slow dance1989

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > monotonous or jingling poem

sing-song1609

1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. G2 My posts shal not be garded with a little sing song.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 86 This sing-song was made on the English by the Scots.

1709 Brit. Apollo 23–25 Nov. Her Sing-Songs..sound as well as Country Ding-Dongs.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §130 101 There was a Magazine provided of..Pictures and Sing-songs for the Service at Oxford.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxx, in Writings I. 315 A beautiful legend; a nice sing-song to send men to sleep.

in extended use.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 236 Sing-song, a wearisome repetition of any tale or grievance. ‘Don't make such a sing-song about it.’

a. Verse or rhyme of the above type.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > monotonous or jingling poem > monotonous or jingling poetry

sing-song1693

1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. O1^v Campanella tells us, that the German and Gallican Heresie began with Sing-Song, and is carried on by Comedy, and Tragedies.

1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 226 I ne'r..daggled thro' the Town, To fetch and carry Sing-song up and down.

1775 F. Burney Jrnl. Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 179 I would recommend to such worthy Judges, the singsong & prettiness of Waller & Cowley.

1833 Westm. Rev. 18 35 Its place is taken by the despised melodrame, the sing-song of opera.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 603 His actions are celebrated in most grandiloquent sing-song.

b. Tone of voice marked by a monotonous rise and fall, with a kind of singing effect.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pitch > sing-song

sing-song1822

1822 C. B. Brown Carwin, etc. II. 115 Their tone was an insipid sing-song, or a monotonous uniformity.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xliii. 43 Crying out the invitation to prayer in a long drawling sing-song.

1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 50 The fine old Norfolk words, and twang, and squeaky sing-song have gone.

†3. A singer, minstrel. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > minstrel

gleemanc897

galegalea1250

minstrel?a1300

bard1449

sing-song1694

troubadour1728

musar1776

jongleur1782

minstreless1817

1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xviii Rhimers, Poets,..Sing-songs, Musitianers.

a. An amateur concert of an informal nature; a convivial meeting where each person is expected to contribute a song. Now more usually a gathering for, or session of, community singing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gatherings for specific activity

apple paring1656

house raising1704

quilting1768

bee1769

sing-song1769

reading party1781

rocking1786

cotton-picking1795

rolling1819

picking bee1828

candy pulling1834

candy pull1845

taffy-join1854

barn-raising1856

taffy pulling1863

coffee shop1880

log-rolling1883

taffy pull1883

petting party1920

play date1975

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > sing-song

sing-song1769

sing1850

singing1860

sing-in1968

sing-along1973

1769 Trinculo's Trip 19 The dinner o'er, the sing-song done.

1857 J. E. Ritchie Night Side of London 192 The wealthy [have] their ‘ancient concerts’—the costermongers what they term their sing-song.

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Sing-Song, a choral meeting at a pot-house.

1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London ii. 19 The London factory-bred girl..has her ‘young man’, and accompanies him of evenings to ‘sing-songs’ and raffles.

1885 Times 11 Feb. 8/1 On Christmas night the whole camp was en fête, a capital sing-song having been got up.

1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. ii. 252 ‘Had some rippin' sing-songs in camp, too,’ said Tertius.

1914 D. O. Barnett Let. 18 Dec. in In Happy Memory (1915) 28 We've got some sing-songs and smokers on for Christmas.

1933 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Oct. 14/6 Harvard students will..learn old German drinking songs at the German Sing-Song conducted by James W. Hawkes.

1968 ‘J. le Carré’ Small Town in Germany ix. 147 Wednesday was welfare. Ping pong night. Sing song night.

1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place i. 30 Ey, David! Coom to t'sing-song at t'Mason's Arms tonight?

b. The style of singing usual at a concert or gathering of this description.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > style of singing

musica ficta1786

stile rappresentativo1886

sing-song1893

bel canto1894

throat singing1916

quasi parlando1959

isicathamiya1974

1893 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 3 A sand-parlour'd shanty devoted to sing-song and swipes.

Compounds

C1. attributive.

a. Of persons: Making mere jingling rhyme or monotonous verse; delighting in trivial or simple singing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > given to singing

sing-songa1687

lyric1814

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [adjective] > composing bad verse > monotonous or jingling

sing-songa1687

a1687 Duke of Buckingham Poems (1775) 141 And sing-song Durfey..Lives by his impudence, and not the muses.

1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 51 The poets..from Huffing Dryden, to Sing-Song Durfey.

1760 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 620 A good-humoured sing-song man.

1794 W. Combe Hist. Thames I. 282 The severity of the sing-song satirist.

1872 Punch 16 Nov. 200/1 You know that the sing-song lot mostly dislike good music.

b. Of the nature of sing-song; characterized by a jingling triviality or a monotonous rise and fall.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > rising or falling

sing-song1734

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song > of nature of

sing-song1734

1734 Prompter 24 Dec. 1/1 Are the Opera's any more than Sing-song Concerts?

1739 P. Whitehead Manners 8 What sing-song Riot, and what Eunuch-squawling.

1810 W. Scott Let. 24 Oct. (1932) II. 396 I have other four little tales or singsong kind of verses.

1812 Baker's Biogr. Dram. II. 313/2 A satire on the sing-song and raree-show insignificance of modern operas.

1832 T. B. Macaulay Let. 21 July in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. v. 262 Shall I tell you the news in rhyme? I think I will send you a regular sing-song gazette.

c. Monotonous in cadence.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song

sing-song1825

sing-songy1892

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 89 A regular sing-song intonation.

1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 19 Repeating in true sing-song vernacular the legend of St. George.

1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 198 He addressed him in an unctuous tone, and in a sing-song style.

C2.

sing-song girl n. a Chinese girl who entertains men by singing and dancing (euphemistic one of easy virtue).

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec.

grass widow1529

leaguer-laundress1630

leaguer-lady1702

leaguer-lass1822

garrison-hack1876

sing-song girl1934

groupie1966

1934 ‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin 326 So there will be more war in China because of a foreigner's idle love-letter to a sing-song girl.

1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War 157 Even the singsong girls have changed their style.

1965 J. Von Sternberg Fun in Chinese Laundry iv. 82 On the first floor were gambling tables, singsong girls.

1978 China Now Mar. 19/2 The shocking thing was that in the cities—where officials danced or played with sing song girls—there were grain and food.

sing-song theory n. the theory (propounded by Jespersen) that language evolved from primitive singing.

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the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of

pooh-pooh theory1861

bow-wow theory1864

symphonesis1872

nativism1892

ta-ta theory1930

sing-song theory1939

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 40 Language has been traced by some to primitive rhythmic chants and to singing (the sing-song theory).

1973 Current Anthropol. XIV. 27/3 He makes no reference to Jespersen's classic ‘sing-song’ theory of language origin (1922). Though this label was applied to Jespersen's hypothesis..by his critics, there seems little doubt that he believed language to have been chanted before it was spoken.

Derivatives

ˈsing-ˌsongy adj.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > style of singing

orthian1598

miauling1884

sing-songy1892

vo-do-deo-do1934

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song

sing-song1825

sing-songy1892

1892 E. Lytton Let. 20 July in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) viii. 155 Vic is made to read poetry aloud to us. He has a very sing-songy voice.

1900 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 107 Reading in deep guttural tones, and in a sing-songy way.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

sing-songv.

Etymology: < sing-song n.

1. transitive.

a. To force by means of singing.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > force or drive by singing

singa1616

sing-song1726

1726 L. Welsted Dissembled Wanton i. i In Short, we are Sing-Songed at once out of our Senses and our Money.

b. To utter or express in a monotonous chant. Also, with direct speech as object.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (transitive)] > intonate > sing-song

sing-song1867

1867 Our Young Folks Mar. (Stand.) Some singsonged the multiplication table.

1882 ‘E. Lyall’ Donovan vi Now they sing-song all the things so, and I can't seem to pick myself up.

1884 Graphic 15 Nov. 519/3 One sing-songing the alphabet.

1931 Amer. Speech 7 50 To the ‘fiddlin'’ for the square dances the ‘caller’ sing-songs: All to your places, straighten up your faces, Join eight hands and circle left.

1963 R. Wolff I, Keturah ii. iv. 171 ‘You can't catch me. You can't catch me,’ he singsonged.

1976 P. A. Lake Leffert's Dis. 173 ‘I'm sorry, he's not here,’ she sing-songed with her nasal twang.

2. intransitive. To sing, make verses, utter words, etc., in a sing-song manner.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)]

singc825

chantc1405

carpc1425

relesch1513

deliver1530

record1590

strain1602

cherubim1748

vocalize1782

nightingalize1799

sing-song1828

outsing1877

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (intransitive)] > sing-song

sing-song1828

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > jingle

tinkle1625

tink1655

chimea1667

jingle1670

clinka1745

sing-song1828

1828 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry I. 131 On the linden, birds were thronging, All chirping, warbling, singing-songing.

1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. i. 66 There's no glory Like his who saves his country: and you sit Sing-songing here.

1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 267 He sing-songed, always saying ‘this fine bullock’ in exactly the same tone of voice.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	sing-song
释义	sing-songn. Etymology: < sing v.¹ + song n.¹ 1. A ballad, a piece of verse, having musical rather than poetical qualities, esp. one of a monotonous or jingling character. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > ballad ballad1458 sing-song1609 street ballad1694 balladling1798 song ballad1832 border balladc1863 come-all-ye1892 slowie1939 slow dance1989 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > monotonous or jingling poem sing-song1609 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. G2 My posts shal not be garded with a little sing song. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Berks. 86 This sing-song was made on the English by the Scots. 1709 Brit. Apollo 23–25 Nov. Her Sing-Songs..sound as well as Country Ding-Dongs. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §130 101 There was a Magazine provided of..Pictures and Sing-songs for the Service at Oxford. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xxx, in Writings I. 315 A beautiful legend; a nice sing-song to send men to sleep. in extended use.1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 236 Sing-song, a wearisome repetition of any tale or grievance. ‘Don't make such a sing-song about it.’ 2. a. Verse or rhyme of the above type. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [noun] > monotonous or jingling poem > monotonous or jingling poetry sing-song1693 1693 T. Rymer Short View Trag. sig. O1^v Campanella tells us, that the German and Gallican Heresie began with Sing-Song, and is carried on by Comedy, and Tragedies. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Arbuthnot 226 I ne'r..daggled thro' the Town, To fetch and carry Sing-song up and down. 1775 F. Burney Jrnl. Nov. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1990) II. 179 I would recommend to such worthy Judges, the singsong & prettiness of Waller & Cowley. 1833 Westm. Rev. 18 35 Its place is taken by the despised melodrame, the sing-song of opera. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. l. 603 His actions are celebrated in most grandiloquent sing-song. b. Tone of voice marked by a monotonous rise and fall, with a kind of singing effect. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > intonation > pitch > sing-song sing-song1822 1822 C. B. Brown Carwin, etc. II. 115 Their tone was an insipid sing-song, or a monotonous uniformity. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings II. xliii. 43 Crying out the invitation to prayer in a long drawling sing-song. 1887 A. Jessopp Arcady ii. 50 The fine old Norfolk words, and twang, and squeaky sing-song have gone. †3. A singer, minstrel. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > [noun] > minstrel gleemanc897 galegalea1250 minstrel?a1300 bard1449 sing-song1694 troubadour1728 musar1776 jongleur1782 minstreless1817 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xviii Rhimers, Poets,..Sing-songs, Musitianers. 4. a. An amateur concert of an informal nature; a convivial meeting where each person is expected to contribute a song. Now more usually a gathering for, or session of, community singing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > gatherings for specific activity apple paring1656 house raising1704 quilting1768 bee1769 sing-song1769 reading party1781 rocking1786 cotton-picking1795 rolling1819 picking bee1828 candy pulling1834 candy pull1845 taffy-join1854 barn-raising1856 taffy pulling1863 coffee shop1880 log-rolling1883 taffy pull1883 petting party1920 play date1975 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > sing-song sing-song1769 sing1850 singing1860 sing-in1968 sing-along1973 1769 Trinculo's Trip 19 The dinner o'er, the sing-song done. 1857 J. E. Ritchie Night Side of London 192 The wealthy [have] their ‘ancient concerts’—the costermongers what they term their sing-song. 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) Sing-Song, a choral meeting at a pot-house. 1869 J. Greenwood Seven Curses London ii. 19 The London factory-bred girl..has her ‘young man’, and accompanies him of evenings to ‘sing-songs’ and raffles. 1885 Times 11 Feb. 8/1 On Christmas night the whole camp was en fête, a capital sing-song having been got up. 1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. ii. 252 ‘Had some rippin' sing-songs in camp, too,’ said Tertius. 1914 D. O. Barnett Let. 18 Dec. in In Happy Memory (1915) 28 We've got some sing-songs and smokers on for Christmas. 1933 Sun (Baltimore) 21 Oct. 14/6 Harvard students will..learn old German drinking songs at the German Sing-Song conducted by James W. Hawkes. 1968 ‘J. le Carré’ Small Town in Germany ix. 147 Wednesday was welfare. Ping pong night. Sing song night. 1974 J. Aiken Midnight is Place i. 30 Ey, David! Coom to t'sing-song at t'Mason's Arms tonight? b. The style of singing usual at a concert or gathering of this description. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > style of singing musica ficta1786 stile rappresentativo1886 sing-song1893 bel canto1894 throat singing1916 quasi parlando1959 isicathamiya1974 1893 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 3 A sand-parlour'd shanty devoted to sing-song and swipes. Compounds C1. attributive. a. Of persons: Making mere jingling rhyme or monotonous verse; delighting in trivial or simple singing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > given to singing sing-songa1687 lyric1814 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > bad poem or doggerel poem > [adjective] > composing bad verse > monotonous or jingling sing-songa1687 a1687 Duke of Buckingham Poems (1775) 141 And sing-song Durfey..Lives by his impudence, and not the muses. 1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 51 The poets..from Huffing Dryden, to Sing-Song Durfey. 1760 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 620 A good-humoured sing-song man. 1794 W. Combe Hist. Thames I. 282 The severity of the sing-song satirist. 1872 Punch 16 Nov. 200/1 You know that the sing-song lot mostly dislike good music. b. Of the nature of sing-song; characterized by a jingling triviality or a monotonous rise and fall. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > rising or falling sing-song1734 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song > of nature of sing-song1734 1734 Prompter 24 Dec. 1/1 Are the Opera's any more than Sing-song Concerts? 1739 P. Whitehead Manners 8 What sing-song Riot, and what Eunuch-squawling. 1810 W. Scott Let. 24 Oct. (1932) II. 396 I have other four little tales or singsong kind of verses. 1812 Baker's Biogr. Dram. II. 313/2 A satire on the sing-song and raree-show insignificance of modern operas. 1832 T. B. Macaulay Let. 21 July in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. v. 262 Shall I tell you the news in rhyme? I think I will send you a regular sing-song gazette. c. Monotonous in cadence. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song sing-song1825 sing-songy1892 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 89 A regular sing-song intonation. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 19 Repeating in true sing-song vernacular the legend of St. George. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xxii. 198 He addressed him in an unctuous tone, and in a sing-song style. C2. sing-song girl n. a Chinese girl who entertains men by singing and dancing (euphemistic one of easy virtue). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec. grass widow1529 leaguer-laundress1630 leaguer-lady1702 leaguer-lass1822 garrison-hack1876 sing-song girl1934 groupie1966 1934 ‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin 326 So there will be more war in China because of a foreigner's idle love-letter to a sing-song girl. 1939 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Journey to War 157 Even the singsong girls have changed their style. 1965 J. Von Sternberg Fun in Chinese Laundry iv. 82 On the first floor were gambling tables, singsong girls. 1978 China Now Mar. 19/2 The shocking thing was that in the cities—where officials danced or played with sing song girls—there were grain and food. sing-song theory n. the theory (propounded by Jespersen) that language evolved from primitive singing. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of pooh-pooh theory1861 bow-wow theory1864 symphonesis1872 nativism1892 ta-ta theory1930 sing-song theory1939 1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. 40 Language has been traced by some to primitive rhythmic chants and to singing (the sing-song theory). 1973 Current Anthropol. XIV. 27/3 He makes no reference to Jespersen's classic ‘sing-song’ theory of language origin (1922). Though this label was applied to Jespersen's hypothesis..by his critics, there seems little doubt that he believed language to have been chanted before it was spoken. Derivatives ˈsing-ˌsongy adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > style of singing orthian1598 miauling1884 sing-songy1892 vo-do-deo-do1934 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation > sing-song sing-song1825 sing-songy1892 1892 E. Lytton Let. 20 July in E. Lutyens Blessed Girl (1953) viii. 155 Vic is made to read poetry aloud to us. He has a very sing-songy voice. 1900 Pall Mall Mag. Sept. 107 Reading in deep guttural tones, and in a sing-songy way. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). sing-songv. Etymology: < sing-song n. 1. transitive. a. To force by means of singing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > force or drive by singing singa1616 sing-song1726 1726 L. Welsted Dissembled Wanton i. i In Short, we are Sing-Songed at once out of our Senses and our Money. b. To utter or express in a monotonous chant. Also, with direct speech as object. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (transitive)] > intonate > sing-song sing-song1867 1867 Our Young Folks Mar. (Stand.) Some singsonged the multiplication table. 1882 ‘E. Lyall’ Donovan vi Now they sing-song all the things so, and I can't seem to pick myself up. 1884 Graphic 15 Nov. 519/3 One sing-songing the alphabet. 1931 Amer. Speech 7 50 To the ‘fiddlin'’ for the square dances the ‘caller’ sing-songs: All to your places, straighten up your faces, Join eight hands and circle left. 1963 R. Wolff I, Keturah ii. iv. 171 ‘You can't catch me. You can't catch me,’ he singsonged. 1976 P. A. Lake Leffert's Dis. 173 ‘I'm sorry, he's not here,’ she sing-songed with her nasal twang. 2. intransitive. To sing, make verses, utter words, etc., in a sing-song manner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] singc825 chantc1405 carpc1425 relesch1513 deliver1530 record1590 strain1602 cherubim1748 vocalize1782 nightingalize1799 sing-song1828 outsing1877 the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (intransitive)] > sing-song sing-song1828 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [verb (intransitive)] > jingle tinkle1625 tink1655 chimea1667 jingle1670 clinka1745 sing-song1828 1828 W. Taylor Historic Surv. German Poetry I. 131 On the linden, birds were thronging, All chirping, warbling, singing-songing. 1875 Ld. Tennyson Queen Mary ii. i. 66 There's no glory Like his who saves his country: and you sit Sing-songing here. 1901 ‘G. Douglas’ House with Green Shutters 267 He sing-songed, always saying ‘this fine bullock’ in exactly the same tone of voice. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1609v.1726
随便看	carry one's pigs to market carry one's point carry one's tongue in one's heart carry or keep a stiff upper lip carry out carry out one's bat carry over carry owls to athens carry permit carry pistol carry scent carry something into effect carry something into etc carry something into execution carry something into practice carry something to etc carry something to extremes carry something to one's pillow carry something to to excess carry something to too far carry something, to drink, eat, go, run to excess carry sway carry swords carry the ball carry the bone