BALLAD
(also see song)
ADJECTIVES
► BALLADIC pert. to ballads → 1881
► BALLADICAL pert. to ballads → 1615 obs.
NOUNS
► BALLADLING a little ballad → 1798
► BALLANT a ballad, a song → 1814 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BALLET a ballad, a song → 1866 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CANTILENA a ballad → 1867
► CANTO a ballad, a song → 1603 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► BALADINE ► BALLADINE a ballad-maker or singer → 1604 obs.
► BALLADEER a person who sings or composes ballads → 1714
► BALLADER ► BALLETTER a writer of ballads or scurrilous verses → 1589
► BALLADIER a street ballad-singer; a singer or writer of ballads → 1637 obs.
► BALLADIST a maker or singer of ballads → 1811
► BALLAD-MONGER a maker or seller of ballads; spec., one who writes or deals in cheap or slanderous verse, used depreciatively → 1598
► BALLAD SINGER a person who strolls about singing ballads → 1592
► CANTABANK a common ballad-singer → 1834 contemptuous usage
► CHAUNTER-CULL a writer of street ballads, carols, songs, last dying speeches, etc. for ad hoc consumption; generally to be found in a pub → 1781 cant
► GABERLILTIE a ballad-singer → 1880 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► YOWPER a ballad-singer; a yelper; a street-crier → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
► PAPER-FAKE to sell ballads on the street → M19 sl.
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