Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sob or sigh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
sob .
Etymologies
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From Latin singultus.
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Examples
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And into the river that had been a stream (for a thousand of tears had gone eon her and come on her and she was stout and struck on dancing and her muddied name was Missis-liffi) there fell a tear, a singult tear, the loveliest of all tears (I mean for those crylove fables fans who are ‘keen’ on the pretty-pretty commonface sort of thing you meet by hopeharrods) for it was a leaptear.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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