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adjective

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

... 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 instead of ...

— Your Boys • Gipsy Smith

... in the trick of words, then I might say something real cute. As it is, I can only supply a sort of condensed statement,—something about a nymph, a moonlit lake, the spirit of the glen,—nice catchy phrases every one,—with a line thrown in from Shelley about an 'orbed maiden with white fire laden.' Let me go back a hundred yards, Miss Wynton, and I shall return with the whole thing ...

— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... ringing with a chorus from three hundred throats as three hundred students poured out of doors, and over-flowed the ridge and spilled down the broad steps, making a babel of musical tongues; while fitting itself to every catchy college air known to Sunrise ...

— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter

... claim that the increased production of ten or twenty years would alone greatly cheapen silver is flatly contradicted by all previous experience. Of many statements of the fallacy, I take a recent one from the New York Times as the most terse and catchy for popular reading, and ...

— If Not Silver, What? • John W. Bookwalter

... can," said Marjorie, her eyes sparkling. "For it's only some few of those catchy words that I can't seem to learn. But after you help me they all ...

— Marjorie's Busy Days • Carolyn Wells

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