painsong
painsong noun: a cry or feeling of pain and distress.
Noun
painsong (plural painsongs)
- A cry or feeling of pain and distress.
- Love's true willsong / Love's low plainsong / Too sweet painsong1993, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, These are My Rivers, New Directions, →ISBN, page 100
- I tried to keep my hand high to stop my strong heart from pumping me dry, while I worked on the second stanza of my painsong. Nature had been kind enough to pop the finger like a ripe grape to take the pressure off.2011, Dennis Kolb, Never Take Advice from an Unscarred Man, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 84
Examples of painsong in a sentence
- The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.2021, Adam Levin, Bubblegum, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:
- You don't know it's my teeth / my teeth a painsong accompanying what I do2022, Linda LeGarde Grover, The Sky Watched, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
Forms of painsong
| plural | painsongs |
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Origin of painsong
From pain + song.
Questions about painsong
- What does painsong mean?
- Painsong means a cry or feeling of pain and distress.
- How do you use painsong in a sentence?
- The rugburn became increasingly inflamed, and, through trembling lips, which were pursed as if to whistle, my cure began singing its sublime, plaintive painsong.
- What part of speech is painsong?
- Painsong is a noun.
- What is the plural of painsong?
- The plural of painsong is painsongs.
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