songly

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adjective

Of, resembling, pertaining to, or expressed in song; songful; musical

Scrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivesongly (comparative songlier or more songly, superlative songliest or most songly)

comparative songlier · comparative more songly · superlative songliest · superlative most songly

  1. Of, resembling, pertaining to, or expressed in song; songful; musical

    “[...] Remember him singing on the very first day of our journey? Not the songliest of songs, but a song nonetheless.”

    2011, K. M. Grant, Belle's Song
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    Sing Hallelujah the new apocalypse of troubadours, jointing the bonds of Reader and Congregation, the classic Afric jazz pattern of call and response, the songly graces of Thomas Wyatt, Dylan Thomas, Bob Dylan, and all their sons, playing real lyres that tell the truth.

    1967, Books - Issues 369-376

    Therefore the cry of the heart goes up, and amongst the heavenly citizens a songly thought runs desiring to be lifted up to the ear of the most High.

    1972, Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love, Aeterna Press

    Something as small and fat-rich as the brain of a bird / concealing in its convolutions the songly courses / lifting in its steps the voice on which to lock and be lulled as if to fly on a single wing the origin of left and right

    2005, Andrew Duncan, The Imaginary in Geometry

    Well, pinch me nose, I don't suppose I am a flapsy bird: Me songly croon's so out o' tune Like none you've ever heard! I withers every word, a songly sound absurd.

    2008, T. A. Barron, Merlin's Dragon - Book 1

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Origin

  1. Middle Englishsongly
  2. Englishsongly

From Middle English songly, songli, songelich, songlic, sanglic, equivalent to song + -ly. Compare songlike.

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