songer

S1O1N1G2E1R1

noun

A singer (of songs); a songster.

UncommonScrabble 7

Meanings

songer1

nounsonger (plural songers)

plural songers

  1. humorousnonstandardraresometimesA singer (of songs); a songster.

    No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.

    2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies
    2 more examples

    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

Songer2

proper nounSonger (plural Songers)

plural Songers

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*sangwārī“singer”
  2. Old Englishsangere
  3. Middle Englishsongere
  4. Englishsonger

Perhaps dialectally inherited from Middle English songere, from Old English sangere, from Proto-West Germanic *sangwārī (“singer”), whence German Sänger, Dutch zanger etc. Equivalent to song + -er. Alternatively newly formed from these components.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with songer

All rhymes →

Anagrams

Cite this entry
APA

songer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songer

MLA

“songer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “songer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/songer.

Source: songer on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.