单词 | songish |
释义 | songishadj. rare. Of the nature of, or characterized by, a song or singing; somewhat like a song. ΚΠ 1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius Pref. sig. (a)2 The other [part of the opera] which (for want of a proper English Word) I must call, The Songish Part. 1709 C. Gildon New Metamorph. (ed. 2) II. vi. i. 231 All our Lyric, or Songish Poetry is now confin'd to some few sounding but senseless Words. 1973 D. Shapiro Page-turner 55 Listen to the songish program In which I am the sparrow and you the itinerant gleemaiden. 2001 Sunday Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. Whenever the words seem really, really plain and undeniably songish..then you know you've got something. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1685 |
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