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Catchy adj.

Apt or tending to catch the fancy or attention; catching; taking; as, catchy music.

Tending to catch or insnare; entangling; usually used fig.; as, a catchy question.

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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Etymology of 'Catchy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Catchy" Quotes from Famous Books

... problem," Ellery replied. "I believe she appeared a few weeks ago at Miss Huntress' office—the woman editor, you know—with a catchy little article on fashions. It happened that the boss was in the office, and we consider it rather a grind on him, for he was much taken by either the article or the eyes, and she got a little job as a sort of reportorial maid-of-all-work. Funny, isn't it? If a man is buying ...

— Jewel Weed • Alice Ames Winter

... humming a tune, a catchy tune—I recognized it at once—that the mandolins had tinkled in the Havana cafe, and from the mischievous curves about the corners of her mouth I knew that her mood was adorable. So I caught up the tune, whistling softly, and crossed to her holding ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... music. The latter is as far removed to the contrary as is comedy from tragedy. The 'coon' song entered the bubbling effervescing cauldron of what is termed 'ragtime' music among the multitudinous others, and soon was seen peeping through at the surface among the lightest and most catchy.... The sacred solo found its level among the heavier in its class, and if the term may be here applied, ...

— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten

... here!" He was on his mettle now. Surely no cardinal could sing fuller, clearer, sweeter notes! He began at the very first, and rollicked through a story of adventure, colouring it with every wild, dashing, catchy note he could improvise. He followed that with a rippling song of the joy and fulness of spring, in notes as light and airy as the wind-blown soul of melody, and with swaying body kept time to his ...

— The Song of the Cardinal • Gene Stratton-Porter

... to the tune of a catchy American popular air. Few of the dances had been Spanish. He waited, and at last she broke ...

— A Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 • Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park

... M. Coue's doctrine. He makes the patient repeat "Every night, with all my might, I grow worse and worse and worse." Of course the "I" of the lyric-writer is an imaginary "I", but if any man sings "I'm feeling blue", often enough, to a catchy tune, he will be a superman if he does not eventually ...

— Book of Old Ballads • Selected by Beverly Nichols

... Mike, what's this?" gurgled Hart. "'The face at the window'; 'the postmaster's daughter.' How many more catchy cross-heads will you ...

— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

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