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songer

songer noun: a singer (of songs); a songster.

Noun

songer (plural songers)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard, rare, sometimes) A singer (of songs); a songster.
    • 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."1902, Interstate Druggist, volume 3
    • Will he sing it, I wonder?"
      "Chantoozie, I ain't much of a songer any more. I just done that because I was told it was a colorful trait."1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle

Proper noun capitalized: Songer

Songer (plural Songers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of songer

Noun
pluralsongers
Proper noun
pluralSongers

Origin of songer

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.

Words that rhyme with songer

Questions about songer

What does songer mean?
Songer means a singer (of songs); a songster.
What part of speech is songer?
Songer can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of songer?
The plural of songer is songers.

Words near songer in the dictionary

  1. Songco
  2. songcraft
  3. Songculan
  4. Songdo Point
  5. songe
  6. songer
  7. songers
  8. songes
  9. songfest
  10. songfests
  11. songfic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: songer (page history and authors); Songer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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