Gripping vs Catchy - What's the difference?
gripping | catchy |
(pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines)
* 1727 , Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies
Instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).
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, year=2012
, date=June 3
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, title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)
As adjectives the difference between gripping and catchy
is that gripping is catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating while catchy is instantly appealing and memorable (of a tune or phrase).As a verb gripping
is present participle of lang=en.As a noun gripping
is obsolete form of lang=en pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.gripping
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(en noun)- The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite
catchy
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Adjective
(er)citation, page= , passage=The best of friends become the worst of enemies when Barney makes a hilarious attack ad where he viciously pummels a cardboard cut-out of Homer before special guest star Linda Ronstadt joins the fun to both continue the attack on the helpless Homer stand-in and croon a slanderously accurate, insanely catchy jingle about how “Mr. Plow is a loser/And I think he is a boozer.” }}