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belty

belty adjective: sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.

Adjective

belty (comparative more belty, superlative most belty)

  1. Sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.
    • I recognize now that my voice was changing in middle school because singing in my chest voice was easy (especially in a belty fashion) but singing anything moderately high was challenging.2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 161

Forms of belty

comparativemore belty
superlativemost belty

Origin of belty

From belt + -y.

Questions about belty

What does belty mean?
Belty means sung using a chest voice above the singer's break or passaggio.
What part of speech is belty?
Belty is an adjective.

Words near belty in the dictionary

  1. beltways
  2. beltwise
  3. Beltwood
  4. Beltwoods
  5. beltwork
  6. belty
  7. Beltz
  8. Beltzes
  9. Beluchi
  10. Beluchis
  11. Beluchistan

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