songish
songish adjective: consisting of or containing songs.
Adjective
songish (comparative more songish, superlative most songish)
- Consisting of or containing songs.
- The other, which, for want of a proper English word, I must call the songish part, must abound in the softness and variety of numbers; its principal intention being to please the hearing, […]1680, John Dryden, Albion and Albanius
- Characteristic of a song; songlike
- I have struck off what I am sure would be objected to as not songish enough for the taste of the day. The air will now require to be sung each four lines, which I think answers as well as repeating each part.1872, Baroness Carolina Oliphant Nairne Nairne, Caroline Oliphant, Charles Rogers, Life and Songs of the Baroness Nairne
- This turning away from the performed, songish traits of the cantares, which seems an inevitable result of the inscriptive technology that brings them to us, breaks down any number of other metonymic connections of these songs to the indigenous world.2007, Gary Tomlinson, The Singing of the New World
Forms of songish
| comparative | more songish |
|---|---|
| superlative | most songish |
Origin of songish
From song + -ish.
Questions about songish
- What does songish mean?
- Songish means consisting of or containing songs.
- What part of speech is songish?
- Songish is an adjective.
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