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crooner|ˈkruːnə(r)|
[f. croon v. + -er.]
a. One who croons. In Sc. a name for a fish, the Grey Gurnard (Trigla gurnardus), from the noise it makes when landed.
1808in Jamieson. 1838Proc. Berw. Nat. Club I. 170 Trigla gurnardus..the Gurnett or Crooner. 1884G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Dec. 73/1 We..discovered each other—the crooner and I.
b. spec. A singer who croons (see croon v. 2 a).
1930Vanity Fair July 57 Just call them Crooners. 1932Thorne Smith Bishop's Jaegers (1934) 314 That sound..is made nightly by one of the nation's most popular crooners. 1933[see croon v. 2 a]. 1948Penguin Music Mag. Feb. 25 The B.B.C. could start the campaign by refusing to make ‘stars’ of its crooners. 1954Granta 6 Nov. 23/1 Dickie Valentine turns out, from his old cuttings, to be a crooner, as I had suspected. |