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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

The music has a minimalist, almost Gaelic lilt, laid over the staccato plucking on the strings of an Okinawan 'shamisen.' Source: Internet

She swoops her right hand through the air, imitating the lilt of a raven playing in the wind. Source: Internet

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." Source: Internet

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