See singsong on Wiktionary
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"(intransitive) To utter in a singsong voice."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English intransitive verbs",
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act II, scene i, pages 65–66:",
"text": "[Y]ou sit / Sing-songing here; but, if I'm any judge, / By God, you are as poor a poet, Wyatt, / As a good soldier.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To compose poor poetry."
],
"links": [
[
"poor",
"poor#Adjective"
],
[
"poetry",
"poetry"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, obsolete) To compose poor poetry."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪŋsɒŋ/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪŋsɔŋ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈsɪŋsɑŋ/",
"tags": [
"cot-caught-merger"
]
},
{
"audio": "En-us-singsong.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/57/En-us-singsong.ogg/En-us-singsong.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/En-us-singsong.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪŋsɒŋ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sing-song"
}
],
"word": "singsong"
}
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