"singster" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "syngster"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English syngster",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sing",
        "3": "ster"
      },
      "expansion": "sing + -ster",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English syngster, equivalent to sing + -ster. Compare songster.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singsters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "singster (plural singsters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "A female singer; songstress."
      ],
      "id": "en-singster-en-noun-8VApWYmR",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "songstress",
          "songstress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A female singer; songstress."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ster",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art",
          "text": "Mrs. Stone had been, as she put it, \"quite some of a singster\" in her youth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Guide to Nature - Volume 2",
          "text": "I therefore think a cedar bird should be called a trickster instead of a singster, as he has not much song anyway."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg",
          "text": "It seems to annoy some folks. Remember when I come and sung Kathleen Mavourneen to you one morning bright and early ? Well, you was real peevish about it yourself. Abilene was more so.\" \" You ain't no great shakes as a singster, Benny,\" I says. \" Still, it don't seem like Kathleen Mavourneen was no just cause or impediment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Mercedes Lackey, The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy",
          "text": "That be 'cause she don't care for ye singsters, an' no dancin' girl'll stay where the profits be so lean.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A singer; songster; vocalist"
      ],
      "id": "en-singster-en-noun-GTpBAS8L",
      "links": [
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "songster",
          "songster"
        ],
        [
          "vocalist",
          "vocalist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, archaic) A singer; songster; vocalist"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "singster"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms suffixed with -ster"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "syngster"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English syngster",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sing",
        "3": "ster"
      },
      "expansion": "sing + -ster",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English syngster, equivalent to sing + -ster. Compare songster.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "singsters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "singster (plural singsters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female singer; songstress."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "songstress",
          "songstress"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A female singer; songstress."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art",
          "text": "Mrs. Stone had been, as she put it, \"quite some of a singster\" in her youth.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Guide to Nature - Volume 2",
          "text": "I therefore think a cedar bird should be called a trickster instead of a singster, as he has not much song anyway."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg",
          "text": "It seems to annoy some folks. Remember when I come and sung Kathleen Mavourneen to you one morning bright and early ? Well, you was real peevish about it yourself. Abilene was more so.\" \" You ain't no great shakes as a singster, Benny,\" I says. \" Still, it don't seem like Kathleen Mavourneen was no just cause or impediment.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Mercedes Lackey, The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy",
          "text": "That be 'cause she don't care for ye singsters, an' no dancin' girl'll stay where the profits be so lean.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A singer; songster; vocalist"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "singer",
          "singer"
        ],
        [
          "songster",
          "songster"
        ],
        [
          "vocalist",
          "vocalist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated, archaic) A singer; songster; vocalist"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "singster"
}