lilt
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1. lilt - Noun
2. lilt - Verb
Meaning
To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.
To sing cheerfully.
To utter with spirit, animation, or gayety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
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It feels ever so slightly tinged with an Irish or Scottish lilt, but it’s mainly the sound of pure, American folk music.
But Bibi’s confessional rock songs are different, too: she sings with a hip-hop lilt that’s a little tipsy, and full of soul.
But it sets those familiar ideas in an electronic domain — not just programmed drums but clouds of sustained harmony, bursts of twitchy double time and sudden blips and swooshes, deliberately defamiliarizing the lilt of the pop songs.
The music has a minimalist, almost Gaelic lilt, laid over the staccato plucking on the strings of an Okinawan 'shamisen.'
She swoops her right hand through the air, imitating the lilt of a raven playing in the wind.
He improvises increasingly inventive compliments for model Nicole Narain in his Irish lilt: "If a fucking camera could blush, this thing would be fucking red."