traddy music
- noun
- UK
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música tradicional
- Many young musicians are rediscovering traddy music and blending it with contemporary styles.
Examples
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At the pub last night, everyone danced to the traddy music played by the local band.
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I love listening to traddy music at family gatherings.
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She prefers traddy music over modern pop songs at family gatherings.
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Do you enjoy traddy music from different cultures?
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At the pub last night, everyone danced to the traddy music played by the local band.
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Many young musicians are rediscovering traddy music and blending it with contemporary styles.
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She prefers traddy music over modern pop songs at family gatherings.
Synonyms
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2.5
Traditional music passed down by people in a community
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Traditional songs and tunes that tell a community's stories and ways
A kind of music like old folk, country and blues that sounds simple and honest
How Traditional
Surface Forms
Morphology
traddy + music
The phrase is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'traddy' (colloquial for 'traditional') modifies 'music', so the meaning 'traditional/folk music' can be directly inferred from the parts. Even though 'traddy' is informal and possibly dialectal, the compositional pattern is regular and cross-linguistically recognizable, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would understand it.
Etymology
The phrase traddy music comes from people making the word 'traditional' shorter into traddy and using it with music in casual speech. Imagine a friendly pub where old local tunes are played for dancing—this picture shows why traddy music means 'traditional music' or folk songs today.