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loungy en · ADJ

Etymology

From lounge + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) characteristic of a lounge; informally comfortable
   • Loungy, worn furniture, retro art and chilled music make this a popular hangout with students and a young crowd. 2007, Sarah Johnstone, Europe on a shoestring:
   • The huge space is like an auditorium, with multilevel loungy seating areas looking down onto one of Singapore's best soundstages and dance floors. 2005, Jennifer Eveland, Frommer's Singapore & Malaysia:
2. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of lounge music.
   • In its lean arrangements, her band conjured both traditions and possibilities: the tambourine and strummed cavaquinho (miniature guitar) of samba for “Na Gangorra,” a loungey acid-jazz pulse and hints of reggae for “Vento No Canavial,” African-tinged funk in the Vinicius de Moraes-Baden Powell song “Consolaçã” and in the French songwriter Camille Dalmais’s “1, 2, 3.” 2009 March 16, Jon Pareles, “Brazilian Pop: Sambas With a Twist”, in New York Times:

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