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sotto - What does it mean?

Definition of 'sotto'

English

Adverb

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  • * 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 104:
  • Jimi’s guitar plays flat against the major chord, giving a strange, almost discordant effect. Mitch on drums is behind the bass sotto .
  • * 2006 October 2nd, (Chuck Lorre) and (Bill Prady), (The Big Bang Theory) , “”, screenplay (revised first draft), act one, scene A (page 27):
  • :   (SOTTO , TO LEONARD)   Oh, he’s good.

    Adjective

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  • * 1978–81 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: The Life of Jimi Hendrix (1983), page 237:
  • Playing against the effect, Wood plays single sotto lines with a variation on the key that sustains a minor mode against the finely tuned feedback effects stroked in pinks against the upper canvas.
  • * 2008 , David Henderson, ?Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child , page 192:
  • The twelve string rings out but Jimi’s voice is sotto , intimate.

    Similar to 'sotto'

    saddo, scudo, shito