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songer en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (humorous, nonstandard, rare, sometimes) A 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:
   • 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:

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