sirensong

See also: siren song and Siren song

English

Etymology

From siren +‎ song.

Noun

sirensong (countable and uncountable, plural sirensongs)

1. Alternative form of siren song
   • 1974, Zack R. Bowe, Musical allusions in the works of James Joyce, page 296:

     As we have seen, Stephen identifies with the poet-hero, and Fergus's call becomes a sirensong for his mother.

   • 2007, Heath Lees, Mallarmé and Wagner: music and poetic language, page 110:

     and admitted ruefully that the same bewitching sirensong had also lured him in the past

   • 1999, David C. Jacobs, The presocratics after Heidegger, page 102:

     the mast to which Odysseus is securely fastened in order to resist the seductions of sirensong

Translations

siren song — see siren song

Anagrams

• Ingersons, nose rings, noserings