"songish" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more songish [comparative], most songish [superlative]
Etymology: From song + -ish. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|song|ish}} song + -ish Head templates: {{en-adj}} songish (comparative more songish, superlative most songish)
  1. (obsolete) Consisting of or containing songs. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-songish-en-adj-Ai3ubQwI Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ish, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 72 28 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ish: 71 29 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 72 28 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 73 27
  2. (rare) Characteristic of a song; songlike Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-songish-en-adj-6EdtC8KN
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          "ref": "1872, Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Rogers, Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne:",
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          "text": "The anamnesis might even take the form, finally, of a meditation on how a musicology might constitute itself from a conceptual frame of sufficient breadth to see that song, the universal corollary of the human propensity toward language, is not so much a musical thing as music is songish.",
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