"songer" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "German Sänger",
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  "etymology_text": "Perhaps dialectally inherited from Middle English songere, from Old English sangere, from Proto-Germanic *sangwārijaz (“singer”), whence German Sänger, Dutch zanger etc. Equivalent to song + -er. Alternatively newly formed from these components.",
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      "form": "songers",
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          "ref": "1902, Interstate Druggist, volume 3",
          "text": "If a man who plays at ping pong is a \"ponger,\" Then a singer of a \"singsong\" is a \"songer\"; If the \"songer\" is a singer. Then the \"ponger\" is a \"pinger,\" And the man who says it's wrong must be a \"wronger.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle",
          "text": "Will he sing it, I wonder?\"\n\"Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait.\"",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies",
          "text": "No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.",
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        "A singer (of songs); a songster."
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        "(rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) A singer (of songs); a songster."
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      "rhymes": "-ɒŋə(ɹ)"
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          "text": "No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.",
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