[
UK
/sˈɪŋsɒŋ/
]
NOUN
- a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
- informal group singing of popular songs
VERB
-
move as if accompanied by a singsong
The porters singsonged the travellers' luggage up the mountain - speak, chant, or declaim in a singsong
ADJECTIVE
-
uttered in a monotonous cadence or rhythm as in chanting
their chantlike intoned prayers
a singsong manner of speaking
How To Use singsong In A Sentence
- In a singsongy voice she would describe the visions she was seeing, images that would help solve mysteries. Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear
- There's a woman's voice, kind of singsongy and whiny, but forget about her. The 6th Target
- a singsong manner of speaking
- One of the women started chastising the children in that ridiculous singsong voice that parents use with kids to induce guilt (which seldom works).
- It was distant, - a singsong note, resembling the woodland "halloo" we often hear. The end of an era,
- She greets them with sweet singsong cockneyisms that bear no resemblance to her smoky Afro-American jazz singing voice.
- I recognized her soft singsong immediately.
- In the nearby field, a heavily yoked yak drags the wooden plough through the rocky soil to the singsong tune of his master.
- And I thought that he sort of made a fool of himself at the endorsement by saying, "I endorse him" six different times in a kind of singsongy way. CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: McCain is Still a Media Magnet; Joe Klein Talks About New Book; Did Press Invade Mayor Giuliani's Private Life? - May 13, 2000
- She spoke to the child in her soft Irish singsong.
