bathroom singer
- noun
- Informal
:
cantante de baño
- My father is a secret bathroom singer, always humming tunes in the shower.
Examples
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My sister is a bathroom singer who loves belting out tunes.
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Do you consider yourself a bathroom singer?
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As a bathroom singer, he dreams of performing on stage one day.
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Though she calls herself a bathroom singer, her voice is surprisingly good.
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My father is a secret bathroom singer, always humming tunes in the shower.
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Though she calls herself a bathroom singer, her voice is surprisingly good.
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As a bathroom singer, he dreams of performing on stage one day.
Synonyms
787
1.0
A person who uses their voice to make music, often on stage
37
3.0
A person who sings, often in a band or group
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who enjoys singing informally and privately, typically while in the bathroom' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bathroom' (a room for personal hygiene) with 'singer' (one who sings) — i.e., a singer who sings in the bathroom. This literal noun+noun composition is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bathroom singer may come from the simple image of someone in the bathroom singing loudly while the tiles and walls make the voice echo and they feel private, and the singer enjoys the moment; so the phrase means 'someone who sings for fun when they are alone'.