Crossword clues for catchy
catchy
- Hummable, perhaps
- Interest-grabbing
- Like some tunes
- Like lilting tunes
- Attractive girl embracing Charlie
- Memorable description of successful fielders?
- Collar head of Yard easily remembered?
- Easily remembered
- Instantly memorable
- Like musical hooks
- Like a memorable tune
- Like songs that get stuck in your head
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Catchy \Catch"y\, a.
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.
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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.
--Encyc. of Sport.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1831, from catch (v.) + -y (2). Considered colloquial at first. Related: Catchiness.
Wiktionary
a. Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).
WordNet
adj. having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow" [syn: tricky]
likely to attract attention; "a catchy title for a movie" [syn: attention-getting]
Usage examples of "catchy".
From her message she seemed like just the sort of person you want for your campaign against theYou know, we need a ruder and catchier nickname for the psychoplanetarists.
He considered the name again and decided it would probably stick, unless something catchier had already come out of the enlisted quarters.
Necklace of Powerfulness, which is just like the Necklace of Power but with a catchier name.
More imaginative, technically more inventive, catchier rhymes and tunes.
To drown out criticism, the Coquettes and their male counterparts began to sing a mock-worshipful hymn to the Kokotte, set to a tune so bumptiously catchy that the crowd was soon joining in the choruses.
A great deal of the bad publicity that stigmatized her kind could be traced to other magic-using entities, but vampire was a catchy, sexy term that people remembered.
Ours is just a tune which is catchy and is filling the minds of many, but with what?
Down the block the heavy metal kids are crashing and burning their way through a catchy number whose name she almost seems to recall.
Logan knew the sound bite was the kind of catchy comment the rest of the media would pick up--one that could prove to be an effective deterrent.
Throughout its entire history the English Socialist movement has never produced a song with a catchy tune -- nothing like La Marseillaise or La Cucuracha, for instance.
There must have been a hundred, column after column, some of them with box ads, some with catchy sayings: DON'T PAINT YOURSELF INTO A CORNER WHEN YOU CAN LET US DO IT.
So old Harkavy tells him what he needs is a catchy advertising campaign.
The flier extolled the glories of Manutius in the service of culture, then stated, with some catchy phrases, that the contemporary world sought truths deeper and more luminous than those science could provide: “.
Fortunately, honours were even between Jemmy and Sheledon for catchy tunes.
Dangling carrots like that, all the catchy ads, enticing people to cash in their Social Security checks to play something with odds at millions to one.