Crossword clues for lilt
lilt
- Light melody
- Light quality in music
- Merry tune
- Light refrain
- Upbeat tune
- Springlike melody
- Light rhythm
- Jaunty ditty
- Graceful rhythm
- Buoyant tune
- Uplifting tune
- Uplifting melody
- Tripping tune
- Song on a carnival ride, e.g
- Sing rhythmically
- Rhythm of speech
- Pleasant rhythm
- Merry ditty
- Happy song
- Easy tune
- Cheerful cadence
- Bouncy melody
- Bouncing tune
- Vocal rise and fall
- Vocal cadence
- Vocal buoyancy
- Upbeat little song
- Upbeat little ditty
- Tuneful cadence
- Tripping air
- Swinging ditty
- Swing — rhythm
- Springy movement
- Springlike tune
- Spring melody
- Singsong cadence
- Sing cheerfully
- Rhythmic bounce
- Quality of an Irish accent
- Pleasant vocal cadence
- Pleasant speaking cadence
- Pleasant sound
- Pleasant intonation
- Pleasant air
- Melodious accent
- Many an Irish song
- Manner of song
- Light, musical quality
- Light, jaunty rhythm
- Light graceful swinging rhythm
- Jaunty cadence
- It's easy on the ears
- Happy, rhythmic tune
- Gentle rhythm
- Feature of some voices
- Feature of a Welsh accent
- Easy rhythm
- Cheery quality
- Cheery little tune
- Cheery chorus
- Cheery cadence
- Cheerful melody
- Cheerful ditty
- Cheerful air
- Catchy tempo
- Carousel music, e.g
- Carousel music
- Carnival ride music, e.g
- Buoyant melody
- Brogue quality
- Breezy air
- Bouncy rhythm
- Carnival tune
- Sing with grace
- Ice-cream truck song
- Cheery tune
- Cheerful tune
- Light, happy tune
- Pleasant tune
- Airy tune
- Music box music
- Merry-go-round music, e.g
- Light air
- Cheery song
- Bounce in one's step
- Talk with an Irish brogue, e.g.
- Bouncy step
- Airy melody
- Joyful tune
- Gentle rise and fall of the voice
- Light tune
- Melodic speech
- Light, rhythmic cadence
- Ice cream truck music, e.g.
- Singsongy cadence
- Pleasant accent
- Pleasant cadence
- Pleasant inflection
- You might hear a children's song in one
- "Rock-a-bye Baby," e.g.
- Cheery air
- Swinging rhythm
- Easy-breezy tune
- Gentle tune
- Gentle rising and falling, of a sort
- A jaunty rhythm in music
- Gay tune
- Rhythmical flow
- Rhythmic tune
- Merry-go-round music, e.g.
- Spirited song
- Spirited tune
- Rhythmic cadence
- Rhythmic swing
- Cadence
- Sprightly tune
- Graceful movement
- Cheerful song
- Swingy rhythm
- Rhythmical cadence
- Gay cadence
- Springy cadence
- Merry song
- Happy tune
- Buoyant movement
- Music on a carnival ride
- Speak rhythmically
- Lively air
- Lively song
- Catchy tune
- Tuneful tune
- Springy motion
- Lively ditty
- Lively tune
- Gentle rhythm in a tune
- Swing - rhythm
- Pleasant gentle accent
- Jaunty rhythm, in music
- Jaunty musical rhythm
- Dipping into finances to repay grandpa?
- Bouncy tune
- Musical quality
- Jaunty tune
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lilt \Lilt\, v. t. To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
A classic lecture, rich in sentiment,
With scraps of thundrous epic lilted out
By violet-hooded doctors.
--Tennyson.
Lilt \Lilt\ (l[i^]lt), v. i. [Cf. Norw. lilla, lirla, to sing in a high tone.]
To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wordsworth.To sing cheerfully. [Scot.]
Lilt \Lilt\, n.
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Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
The movement, the lilt, and the subtle charm of the verse.
--F. Harrison. -
A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
The housewife went about her work, or spun at her wheel, with a lilt upon her lips.
--J. C. Shairp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "to lift up" (the voice), probably from late 14c. West Midlands dialect lulten "to sound an alarm," of unknown origin. Possible relatives include Norwegian lilla "to sing" and Low German lul "pipe." It is possible that the whole loose group is imitative. Sense of "sing in a light manner" is first recorded 1786. Related: Lilted; lilting. As a noun, 1728, "lilting song," from the verb. As "rhythmical cadence," 1840.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness. 2 A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune. 3 A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking. vb. 1 To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music. 2 To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic. 3 To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
WordNet
n. a jaunty rhythm in music [syn: swing]
v. articulate in a very careful and rhythmic way
Wikipedia
Lilt is a brand of soft drink manufactured by The Coca-Cola Company and sold in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Gibraltar and the Seychelles only. During the 1980s, Lilt was promoted with the advertising slogan, "the totally tropical taste." Between 2008 and 2014, the Coca Cola company reduced the number of calories in the soda by 56% as part of its efforts to make healthier products in response to the British Government’s Public Health Responsibility Deal.
One advertisement in the late 1980s featured the "Lilt Man", a parody of a milkman, delivering Lilt in a "Lilt float", with a song bearing the lyrics "here comes the Lilt Man". In the late 1990s it was heavily promoted with advertisements featuring two Jamaican women, Blanche Williams and Hazel Palmer. They became known in the media as the "Lilt Ladies".
Usage examples of "lilt".
Good gracious, but his deep masculine voice was rich, with a thick, lilting accent that could only be described as musical.
Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
Ebor, son of Bordis, up on the wall-walk by the western gate, answered a quiet summons and came down the steps to that lilting voice.
The gentle fragrance of calambac lilted in the air, and a hazy face hovered above him.
It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.
The Carolinian lilt of his voice was incongru-ent with the gruffness of his words.
But before I could feel much, the Lakan herald began to call, in Enchian with the odd Lakan lilt, beginning with ponderous formalities.
His gasps became cries, but the lullaby drowned them out, matting his manhood with its nursery lilt.
When the tide of life beats high in two mortals, and they meet in the moment of its apogee, when all the nature is sweeping on without command, guilelessly, yet thoughtlessly, the mere lilt of existence lulling to sleep wisdom and tried experience--speculation points all one way.
The lilting reggae strains of Bob Marley began to pulse through the speakers, having an almost instant mellowing effect on us both.
To his right, Timmer strummed her lotari softly humming a lilting melody to herself and scribbling the notes down on paper as soon as she had them figured out.
Through the lilting strings of the Allegro first movement, she heard the doorbell ring.
Dora Sigerson Shorter is a balladist of stark power, and Miss Eva Gore-Booth a lyric poet whose natural lilt no preoccupation with mysticism can for more than a moment obscure.
He sheathed his stolen dagger and carolled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.
He sheathed his stolen dagger and caroled a line of balladry in lyrical, lilting satire.