singster

English

Etymology

From Middle English syngster, equivalent to sing +‎ -ster. Compare songster.

Noun

singster (plural singsters)

1. (obsolete) A female singer; songstress.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

2. (dated, archaic) A singer; songster; vocalist
   • 1886, The Australian Journal: A Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art:

     Mrs. Stone had been, as she put it, "quite some of a singster" in her youth.

   • 1909, The Guide to Nature - Volume 2:

     I therefore think a cedar bird should be called a trickster instead of a singster, as he has not much song anyway.

   • 1920, Kennett Harris, Meet Mr. Stegg:

     It seems to annoy some folks. Remember when I come and sung Kathleen Mavourneen to you one morning bright and early ? Well, you was real peevish about it yourself. Abilene was more so." " You ain't no great shakes as a singster, Benny," I says. " Still, it don't seem like Kathleen Mavourneen was no just cause or impediment.

   • 2016, Mercedes Lackey, The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy:

     That be 'cause she don't care for ye singsters, an' no dancin' girl'll stay where the profits be so lean.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “singster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Stingers, Tserings, restings, stingers, tressing, trigness