songer

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.

• Rhymes: -ɒŋə(ɹ)

songer (plural songers)

1. (rare, nonstandard, sometimes humorous) A singer (of songs); a songster.
   • 1902, Interstate Druggist, volume 3:

     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."

   • 1976, Katie Lee, Ten Thousand Goddam Cattle:

     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."

   • 2012, Susan St. Francis, A Tale of the Bug Fairies:

     No sound of songers chirping or jumbies, foraging for nuts.

• Egnors, Gerson, Gonser, Gorens, Groens, Negros, Ogrens, ergons, genros, goners, grones, negros, ornges, reongs

Blend of song +‎ singer

songer

1. (humorous) a person (a nonsinger) with a surprisingly good singing voice

Inherited from Middle French songer, from Old French songier, from Latin somniāre.

• IPA^(key): /sɔ̃.ʒe/

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songer

1. (intransitive, literary, with de) to dream
2. (intransitive, with à) to think (about), consider (that)
3. (intransitive) to ponder, to imagine, to consider
   • 1820, Victor Hugo, Lettres à la Fiancée:

     Quant à moi, je suis tout joyeux quand je songe que tu es à moi

     As for me, I am so happy when I imagine you are mine.

4. (transitive, literary) to dream about
5. (transitive) to be preoccupied by, with

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written songe- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

• (to dream): rêver

• songe
• songerie
• songeur, songeuse

• “songer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• en gros, gérons, rognes, ronges, rongés

• songier

From Old French songier.

songer

1. to dream

• As parler except an extra e is inserted after the final g before a and o.
• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• resver

• songe

• French: songer

songer

1. Alternative form of songier

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. In addition, g becomes j before an a or an o to keep the /dʒ/ sound intact. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.