A CAPELLA: (Adjective) used to describe singers so in love with their own voice that they don't want any music to accompany them.
Origin: This type of singing was developed directly after the invention of showers.
Etymology: Some believe that "a capella" means "in the manner of chapel music." However, in truth, something similar was first said by an opera singer when the orchestra suddenly stopped playing:
"Ah crapella! What-a happened to the music-a?!" The word eventually became the less profane "a capella" we know and tolerate today.
Side Note: A group of a capella singers in called a "bernard."
Example: Plug your ears; here comes a bernard!
Lexicographer's Note:
Why does this word get to be on the first page of the dictionary? Why does it get to be listed before "aardvark"? The audacity! Just becvause there's the letter "a" and a space??? Why is it even one-word? As far as I'm concerned if you got a space between the letters then you're two words, "a capella"! Stop trying to cut in line, you perfect-pitched crooner!
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