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adjective
Catchy  adj.  
1.
Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.
2.
Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.
3.
Consisting of, or occuring in, disconnected parts or snatches; changeable; as, a catchy wind. "It (the fox's scent) is... flighty or catchy, if variable."






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"Catchy" Quotes from Famous Books



... hev another 'thout somethin' between," said Dan; and the accordion struck up a rattling, catchy ...
— "Captains Courageous" • Rudyard Kipling

... orchestra. It opens with an overly reminiscent waltz-tune, and ends conventionally, but it contains a movement in negro-tone that gives it importance. In this the strings are abetted by a tambourine, a triangle, and a gong. It is in march-time, and, after a staccato prelude, begins with a catchy air taken by the second violins, while the firsts, divided, fill up the chords. A slower theme follows in the tonic major; it is a jollificational air, dancing from the first violins with a bright use of harmonics. Two periods of loud chorale appear with the gong clanging (to hint a ...
— Contemporary American Composers • Rupert Hughes

... 1910 Mr. J. F. Jones and myself were to see this tree, in order to get its life history. It was said by Mr. Hall that the tree was planted by the early German settlers about forty years ago. The Hall variety is very catchy to the eye on account of its large size. Through the kindness of Mr. Hall we were allowed to cut a few buds, which are bearing trees now at ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting - Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 • Various

... the weak spots. One was its name. People in general did not understand the title, "For Old Eli." There was nothing "catchy" or ...
— Frank Merriwell's Nobility - The Tragedy of the Ocean Tramp • Burt L. Standish (AKA Gilbert Patten)

... traveller back and forth across the central part of Southern California as it does, the kite-shaped trip is naturally a favorite with tourists, and, as its "catchy" name indicates, it caters to that element of travel. One always sees also anxious and eager "prospectors" or expectant settlers, who lose no opportunity to inquire all about citrus and deciduous fruits, and prices of land ...
— A Truthful Woman in Southern California • Kate Sanborn

... throat at last. The moon was behind the cliffs, and he groped his way through the shadows at the foot of the rocks like one who looks for something which he dreads to find. He found nothing, and his catchy breathing ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine

... the Lamp, in black tights and doublet, a black silk half-mask on his forehead, whistled lazily where he lay on the top of the piano. It was a catchy music-hall tune. ...
— Stalky & Co. • Rudyard Kipling

... about hymn-books. We preachers have got to come off our pedestals and not give our hearers what we want, but the thing that will catch them. If a pretty, catchy Sankey hymn will attract a crowd, why shouldn't we use it instead of an anthem? If a brass band will catch them, why shouldn't we play it ...
— Your Boys • Gipsy Smith

... introducing a genuine case of small-pox on the stage? You say in your letter that what the American people clamor for is something "catchy." That would be catchy, and it would ...
— Remarks • Bill Nye

... At last the doctor fairly fell over the rail, landed astride on the boat's gunwale, and from thence took a roll to the bottom and lay in the swashing water. Then delicately, cautiously, the skipper and his man picked their way with short, catchy strokes—mere dabs ...
— A Dream of the North Sea • James Runciman



Words linked to "Catchy" :   tricky, attention-getting, catch, appealing



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