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sing-song

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English

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Noun

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sing-song (plural sing-songs)

  1. Alternative spelling of singsong.
    • 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, The Guardian[1]:
      As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop. They love these big fat emotional notes here.

Adjective

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sing-song (comparative more sing-song, superlative most sing-song)

  1. Alternative spelling of singsong.
    • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section III, page 28:
      [S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone []
    • 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:
      Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.