The difference between singer and songer
is that “singer” is a person who sings, often professionally and “songer” is a singer ; a songster.
singer
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songer
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Noun
- A person who sings, often professionally.
- (square dance) dance figure with a fixed structure, sung by a caller, or a piece of music with that structure.
Related terms
- mastersinger
- meistersinger
- songster
- songstress
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Noun
- (rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) A singer (of songs); a songster.
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.”
- 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.
- No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.
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