singsongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From sing +‎ song.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪŋsɒŋ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsɪŋsɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈsɪŋsɑŋ/
• 韻: -ɪŋsɒŋ

名詞

singsong (plural singsongs)

1. A piece of verse with a simple, songlike rhythm.
2. An informal gathering at which songs are sung; a singing session.

   We gathered round the campfire for a little singsong.

3. Low-quality singing or poetry.
   • 1735 January 13 (Gregorian calendar; indicated as 1734), [Alexander] Pope, An Epistle from Mr. Pope, to Dr. Arbuthnot, London: […] J[ohn] Wright for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, page 12, lines 218–221:

     I ne'r vvith VVits and VVitlings paſt my days, / To ſpread about the Itch of Verſe and Praiſe, / Nor like a Puppy daggled thro' the Tovvn, / To fetch and carry Sing-ſong up and dovvn; […]

4. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a poorly executed song.

派生語

• singsongy

形容詞

singsong (comparative more singsong, superlative most singsong)

1. Of or relating to a piece of singsong; simple and melodic, varying in pitch.

動詞

singsong (third-person singular simple present singsongs, present participle singsonging, simple past and past participle singsonged) (intransitive)

1. (intransitive) To utter in a singsong voice.
   • 1987 May, Texas Monthly, volume 15, number 5, page 184:

     The birdlike female vendors speak only if spoken to, except when softly singsonging in a dialect that sounds like Navajo.

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To compose poor poetry.
   • 1875, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary: A Drama, London: Henry S. King & Co., →OCLC, Act II, scene i, pages 65–66:

     [Y]ou sit / Sing-songing here; but, if I'm any judge, / By God, you are as poor a poet, Wyatt, / As a good soldier.

形容詞

sing-song (comparative more sing-song, superlative most sing-song)

1. Alternative form of singsong.
   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section III, page 28:

     [S]he put on a kind of sing-song voice whenever she was pissed, it was one of the signs that she was really gone […]

   • 2012 July 18, Scott Tobias, “The Dark Knight Rises”, in AV Club:

     Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.