Meanings
songer1
plural songers
- 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 Fairies2 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 3Will 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
Origin
- Proto-West Germanic*sangwārī“singer”
- Old Englishsangere
- Middle Englishsongere
- 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.
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