breakdancing

From break + dancing.
Influenced by breakdown (the percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music) -- breakdancers were originally those who danced to a breakdown.

Hollywood made movies about breakdancing, dancers performed at the White House and the sky seemed the limit.

1998 July 6, Lola Ogunnaike, “NOTICED; Breakdancing Regains Its Footing”, in The New York Times:

(dance) An urban style of acrobatic street dance that originated in the hip hop culture of New York City in the late 20th century.


bump

en-noun

bump (countable and uncountable, plural bumps)

From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.

onom

imitative

cog

We sing [...] "God Save the Queen" done in mime and finally "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" to a Hawaiian rock with Phoebe doing the bump.

1979, Robert English, Toxic Kisses, Eden Paperbacks, page 32:

(preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.


bump

en-verb

bump (third-person singular simple present bumps, present participle bumping, simple past and past participle bumped)

bumps (present singular third-person)
bumping (participle present)
bumped (participle past)
bumped (past)
Lighter (canonical)
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page 24 (canonical)

onom

imitative

(slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.


limbo

Origin uncertain; possibly an alteration of limber (“bendable, flexible, pliant”) with the ending of the word respelled to represent a Caribbean English pronunciation.
It is unclear whether the verb is derived from the noun, or the noun is derived from the verb; the noun is attested slightly earlier.

Every limbo boy and girl / All around the limbo world / Gonna do the limbo rock / All around the limbo clock / Jack be limbo, Jack be quick / Jack go under limbo stick / All around the limbo clock / Hey, let's do the limbo rock

1962 October, Jan Sheldon [pseudonym; Kal Mann], Billy Strange (lyrics and music), “Limbo Rock”, in Limbo Party, performed by Chubby Checker:

At night steel-band and calypso shows liven up many of the island's larger hotels. If you're not up for watching limbos, bottle dancing, and fire eating, your best bet might be a leisurely dinner before settling down on chaise longues around your hotel's pool with a couple of fruity concoctions.

1992, Susan Farewell, “The United States Virgin Islands”, in Alan Tucker, editor, The Berlitz Travellers Guide to the Caribbean 1993, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berlitz Publishing Company, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 140:

Limbo is a traditional popular dance contest that originated on the island of Trinidad. It got its name in the 1950s, but the limbo dates back to the 1800s in Trinidad. […] R&B singer-songwriter Chubby Checker, who popularized the Twist, also popularized the limbo dance and the phrase "How low can you go?" The world record for the lowest limbo dance is only 8.5 inches above the ground!

2016, Linda Parker Hamilton, “Games in the Outdoors”, in Camping Activity Book for Families; The Kid-tested Guide to Fun in the Outdoors, Guilford, Conn., Helena, Mont.: FalconGuides, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 122, column 2:

(dance, also attributively) A competitive dance originating from Trinidad and Tobago in which dancers take turns to cross under a horizontal bar while bending backwards. The bar is lowered with each round, and the competition is won by the dancer who passes under the bar in the lowest position without dislodging it or falling down.

林波舞

competitive dance in which dancers take turns to cross under a horizontal bar while bending backwards


limbo

en-verb

limbo (third-person singular simple present limbos, present participle limboing, simple past and past participle limboed)

limbos (present singular third-person)
limboing (participle present)
limboed (participle past)
limboed (past)

Steve Becker was rolling around with the other skaters at the Pismo Beach, Calif. roller rink one day when it was announced that there would be a limbo contest. […] Steve had his friends set the bar lower and lower while he got flatter and flatter, until finally, at just over a foot and almost spread-eagled, he reached his limboing limit.

1967 November 24, “Miscellany: Stoop to Conquer”, in George P. Hunt, editor, Life, volume 63, number 21, Chicago, Ill., New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 124:

The race begins at Alyeska Resort with an alpine skiing leg. It then proceeds through a downhill sprint, an in-line skate, a mountain bike ride, a 5K run, a wheelchair obstacle course and, if all that wasn't enough, a three-legged race in which participants chug a beer or soda before limboing under the tape.

1993 May–June, Kathleen Ring, “Coming Attractions”, in Snow Country: The Year-round Magazine of Skiing, Mountain Sports & Living, volume 6, number 3, Trumbull, Conn.: NYT Sports/Leisure Magazines, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 68, column 3:

After each player goes under once, the bar is lowered about an inch. Players keep limboing under the limbo stick as it gets lower and lower. If you touch the stick with any part of your body, you're out. The last person left is the winner.

2016, Linda Parker Hamilton, “Games in the Outdoors”, in Camping Activity Book for Families; The Kid-tested Guide to Fun in the Outdoors, Guilford, Conn., Helena, Mont.: FalconGuides, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 122:

Anyway, one year we had a party in our unfinished basement. All I remember about it is that we limboed on bare concrete. Good times!

2020 January 28, Giselle Renarde, “Limbo Rock (Chubby Checker)”, in Play It on My Radio: A Diary in Music, [Los Gatos, Calif.]: [Smashwords], published 2021, →ISBN, page 171:

(dance) To dance the limbo (etymology 2, noun sense 1).


limbo

Limbo, the place where innocent souls barred from heaven exist


limbo

limbo (nominative singular)
limbot (nominative plural)
limbo (accusative nominative singular)
limbot (accusative nominative plural)
limbon (accusative genitive singular)
limbot (accusative genitive plural)
limbon (genitive singular)
limbojen (genitive plural)
limboa (partitive singular)
limboja (partitive plural)
limbossa (inessive singular)
limboissa (inessive plural)
limbosta (elative singular)
limboista (elative plural)
limboon (illative singular)
limboihin (illative plural)
limbolla (adessive singular)
limboilla (adessive plural)
limbolta (ablative singular)
limboilta (ablative plural)
limbolle (allative singular)
limboille (allative plural)
limbona (essive singular)
limboina (essive plural)
limboksi (singular translative)
limboiksi (plural translative)
limbotta (abessive singular)
limboitta (abessive plural)
limboin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
limboni (nominative singular)
limboni (nominative plural)
limboni (accusative nominative singular)
limboni (accusative nominative plural)
limboni (accusative genitive singular)
limboni (accusative genitive plural)
limboni (genitive singular)
limbojeni (genitive plural)
limboani (partitive singular)
limbojani (partitive plural)
limbossani (inessive singular)
limboissani (inessive plural)
limbostani (elative singular)
limboistani (elative plural)
limbooni (illative singular)
limboihini (illative plural)
limbollani (adessive singular)
limboillani (adessive plural)
limboltani (ablative singular)
limboiltani (ablative plural)
limbolleni (allative singular)
limboilleni (allative plural)
limbonani (essive singular)
limboinani (essive plural)
limbokseni (singular translative)
limboikseni (plural translative)
limbottani (abessive singular)
limboittani (abessive plural)
limboineni (comitative plural)
limbosi (nominative singular)
limbosi (nominative plural)
limbosi (accusative nominative singular)
limbosi (accusative nominative plural)
limbosi (accusative genitive singular)
limbosi (accusative genitive plural)
limbosi (genitive singular)
limbojesi (genitive plural)
limboasi (partitive singular)
limbojasi (partitive plural)
limbossasi (inessive singular)
limboissasi (inessive plural)
limbostasi (elative singular)
limboistasi (elative plural)
limboosi (illative singular)
limboihisi (illative plural)
limbollasi (adessive singular)
limboillasi (adessive plural)
limboltasi (ablative singular)
limboiltasi (ablative plural)
limbollesi (allative singular)
limboillesi (allative plural)
limbonasi (essive singular)
limboinasi (essive plural)
limboksesi (singular translative)
limboiksesi (plural translative)
limbottasi (abessive singular)
limboittasi (abessive plural)
limboinesi (comitative plural)
limbomme (nominative singular)
limbomme (nominative plural)
limbomme (accusative nominative singular)
limbomme (accusative nominative plural)
limbomme (accusative genitive singular)
limbomme (accusative genitive plural)
limbomme (genitive singular)
limbojemme (genitive plural)
limboamme (partitive singular)
limbojamme (partitive plural)
limbossamme (inessive singular)
limboissamme (inessive plural)
limbostamme (elative singular)
limboistamme (elative plural)
limboomme (illative singular)
limboihimme (illative plural)
limbollamme (adessive singular)
limboillamme (adessive plural)
limboltamme (ablative singular)
limboiltamme (ablative plural)
limbollemme (allative singular)
limboillemme (allative plural)
limbonamme (essive singular)
limboinamme (essive plural)
limboksemme (singular translative)
limboiksemme (plural translative)
limbottamme (abessive singular)
limboittamme (abessive plural)
limboinemme (comitative plural)
limbonne (nominative singular)
limbonne (nominative plural)
limbonne (accusative nominative singular)
limbonne (accusative nominative plural)
limbonne (accusative genitive singular)
limbonne (accusative genitive plural)
limbonne (genitive singular)
limbojenne (genitive plural)
limboanne (partitive singular)
limbojanne (partitive plural)
limbossanne (inessive singular)
limboissanne (inessive plural)
limbostanne (elative singular)
limboistanne (elative plural)
limboonne (illative singular)
limboihinne (illative plural)
limbollanne (adessive singular)
limboillanne (adessive plural)
limboltanne (ablative singular)
limboiltanne (ablative plural)
limbollenne (allative singular)
limboillenne (allative plural)
limbonanne (essive singular)
limboinanne (essive plural)
limboksenne (singular translative)
limboiksenne (plural translative)
limbottanne (abessive singular)
limboittanne (abessive plural)
limboinenne (comitative plural)
limbonsa (nominative singular)
limbonsa (nominative plural)
limbonsa (accusative nominative singular)
limbonsa (accusative nominative plural)
limbonsa (accusative genitive singular)
limbonsa (accusative genitive plural)
limbonsa (genitive singular)
limbojensa (genitive plural)
limboaan (partitive singular)
limboansa (partitive singular)
limbojaan (partitive plural)
limbojansa (partitive plural)
limbossaan (inessive singular)
limbossansa (inessive singular)
limboissaan (inessive plural)
limboissansa (inessive plural)
limbostaan (elative singular)
limbostansa (elative singular)
limboistaan (elative plural)
limboistansa (elative plural)
limboonsa (illative singular)
limboihinsa (illative plural)
limbollaan (adessive singular)
limbollansa (adessive singular)
limboillaan (adessive plural)
limboillansa (adessive plural)
limboltaan (ablative singular)
limboltansa (ablative singular)
limboiltaan (ablative plural)
limboiltansa (ablative plural)
limbolleen (allative singular)
limbollensa (allative singular)
limboilleen (allative plural)
limboillensa (allative plural)
limbonaan (essive singular)
limbonansa (essive singular)
limboinaan (essive plural)
limboinansa (essive plural)
limbokseen (singular translative)
limboksensa (singular translative)
limboikseen (plural translative)
limboiksensa (plural translative)
limbottaan (abessive singular)
limbottansa (abessive singular)
limboittaan (abessive plural)
limboittansa (abessive plural)
limboineen (comitative plural)
limboinensa (comitative plural)


shuffle

Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a frequentative of shove.

(dance) A dance move in which the foot is scuffed across the floor back and forth.


ceilidh

The noun is borrowed from Scottish Gaelic cèilidh (“a pilgrimage; a social call, visit; a sojourn; a social gathering with dancing, etc., ceilidh”) and Irish célidhe (archaic), céilí (“a social call, visit; a social gathering with dancing, etc., ceilidh”), both from Old Irish célide (“social call, visit”), from céile (“companion, fellow; neighbour”) (ultimately from Proto-Celtic *kēiliyos (“companion; servant”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to settle”)) + -ide.
The plural form ceilidhean is borrowed from Scottish Gaelic cèilidhean.
The verb is derived from the noun.

der

Looking for the Possible Dance [by Alison Louise Kennedy] sets up the 'dance', the ceilidh, as a site of personal and possibly national salvation, but one plagued by insecurities.

2009, Michael Gardiner, “Arcades – The 1980s and 1990s”, in Ian Brown, Alan Raich, editors, Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-century Scottish Literature, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 188:

'Traditional' British dance is a rather woolly genre; its bounds drawn without much discrimination and inclusive of folk dancing, ceilidh, country dancing and pretty much anything pre-20ᵗʰ century that didn't involve a tutu.

2009, “Performing Arts”, in Andrew Whittaker, editor, Britain: Be Fluent in British Life and Culture (Speak the Culture; 3), London: Thorogood Publishing, →ISBN, page 208:

We asked guests to bring something to share: poems, songs, short stories, music, even juggling—whatever they wanted to perform. Afterwards, we all danced the ceilidh, […]

2015, Jodie Gould, quoting “Clark”, “#4: Create: Expressing and Expanding the Inner Self”, in High: Six Principles for Guilt-free Pleasure and Escape, Center City, Minn.: Hazelden Publishing, →ISBN, Part 2 (The Six Pleasure Principles), page 174:


ceilidh

en-verb

ceilidh (third-person singular simple present ceilidhs, present participle ceilidhing, simple past and past participle ceilidhed)

ceilidhs (present singular third-person)
ceilidhing (participle present)
ceilidhed (participle past)
ceilidhed (past)

Nightly the scratch of fiddles and the thud of a reel-set staccatoed the timbers [of the ship sailing from Londonderry to Boston], as the peasant Irish ceilidhed their way to 'Amerikay'.

2001, Brendan Graham, chapter 5, in The Element of Fire, London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 27:


shimmy

A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).

A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.


slop

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

cog

(obsolete) A loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.


slop

en-noun

slop (countable and uncountable, plural slops)

Probably from Middle English *sloppe (attested in plural form sloppes), representing Old English *sloppe (attested in cū-sloppe), related to slip.

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown about, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

2023 September 21, Kyle Barr, “YouTube Announces New Tools to Flood Its Platform With AI-Generated Slop”, in Gizmodo, retrieved 2024-05-08

His post describes a sense of unease, paranoia and loneliness, expressing deep disappointment at the state of the modern internet. He suggests that AI has successfully drowned out the majority of online human activity, reshaping the internet into a more controlled, algorithmic form that exists only to sell products and ideas.

2024 January 16, Dani Di Placido, “The Dead Internet Theory, Explained”, in Forbes.com, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Almost all of the AI-generated slop online is peddled for clicks on social media, not published by major news outlets. These publications still get tripped up, of course, but it's rare.

2024 April 4, USA Today, Don't be fooled by deepfake videos and photos this election cycle. Here's how to spot AI, retrieved 2024-05-08:

Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content

“Society needs concise ways to talk about modern A.I. — both the positives and the negatives,” he said. “‘Ignore that email, it’s spam,’ and ‘Ignore that article, it’s slop,’ are both useful lessons.”

2024 June 11, Benjamin Hoffman, quoting Simon Willison, “First Came ‘Spam.’ Now, With A.I., We’ve Got ‘Slop’”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

In many ways, political slop is a logical end point for these image generators, which seem most useful for people trying to make a quick buck.

2024 August 21, Charlie Warzel, “The MAGA Aesthetic Is AI Slop”, in The Atlantic:

“Coca-Cola just put out an ad and ruined Christmas,” Dylan Pearce, one of the campaign’s many critics, said on TikTok, adding, “To put out slop like this just ruins the Christmas spirit.”

2024 November 20, Alex Vadukul, “Coca-Cola’s Holiday Ads Trade the ‘Real Thing’ for Generative A.I.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

generative artificial intelligence
generative artificial intelligence

(artificial intelligence) Junk output from generative artificial intelligence published on the internet in the guise of legitimate content.


jota

A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations.


jota

Uncertain. Perhaps from Arabic شَطْحَة (šaṭḥa).

bor

Arabic شَطْحَة (šaṭḥa)


jota

jota (nominative singular)
joty (nominative plural)
joty (genitive singular)
jot (genitive plural)
jocie (dative singular)
jotom (dative plural)
jotę (accusative singular)
joty (accusative plural)
jotą (instrumental singular)
jotami (instrumental plural)
jocie (locative singular)
jotach (locative plural)
joto (singular vocative)
joty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Spanish jota, from older xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta, from Latin saltō.


jota

Borrowed from Spanish jota (“jota”), from earlier xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”).


jota

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish jota, from older xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”). Doublet of salta.


Flamenco

de-noun

Flamenco m (strong, genitive Flamencos, no plural)

Flamencos (genitive)
Flamenco (nominative singular)
Flamencos (genitive singular)
Flamenco (dative singular)
Flamenco (accusative singular)


Morris

en-proper noun

Morris (countable and uncountable, plural Morrises)

* The surname has converged from several origins; see Morris.

A type of folk dance originating in England.


Samba

de-noun

Samba m (strong, genitive Sambas or Samba, plural Sambas)

Sambas (genitive)
Samba (genitive)
Sambas (plural)
Samba (nominative singular)
Sambas (definite nominative plural)
Sambas (genitive singular)
Samba (genitive singular)
Sambas (definite genitive plural)
Samba (dative singular)
Sambas (dative definite plural)
Samba (accusative singular)
Sambas (accusative definite plural)

samba (Latin-American (Brazilian) dance)


Twist

Twist m (strong, genitive Twists, plural Twists)

Twists (genitive)
Twists (plural)
Twist (nominative singular)
Twists (definite nominative plural)
Twists (genitive singular)
Twists (definite genitive plural)
Twist (dative singular)
Twists (dative definite plural)
Twist (accusative singular)
Twists (accusative definite plural)


Tango

Tango m (strong, genitive Tangos, plural Tangos)

Tangos (genitive)
Tangos (plural)
Tango (nominative singular)
Tangos (definite nominative plural)
Tangos (genitive singular)
Tangos (definite genitive plural)
Tango (dative singular)
Tangos (dative definite plural)
Tango (accusative singular)
Tangos (accusative definite plural)


polska

polska (indefinite nominative singular)
polskas (genitive indefinite singular)
polskan (definite nominative singular)
polskans (definite genitive singular)
polskor (indefinite nominative plural)
polskors (genitive indefinite plural)
polskorna (definite nominative plural)
polskornas (definite genitive plural)

Derived from the adjective polsk (“Polish”). The dance was historically associated with Poland, hence the name.

Talar du polska?

(uncountable) Polish; a language spoken in Poland

Hon är polska
She is a [female] Pole / Polish [See vara for why there is no article. "Hon är polsk/polack" also work.]

två polskor

a type of folk dance danced with a partner in 3/4 meter

(by extension) the type of folk music in 3/4 meter associated with such a dance


java

en-noun

java (countable and uncountable, plural javas)

From Java, an island on and near which a particular blend of coffee is made. The US use of the term to refer to any coffee originated in San Francisco, an early center of the US coffee trade.

A blend of coffee imported from the island of Java.

45 have some joe Week's almost over—now bring it home. Austrian researchers found that a cup of java resulted in a 45-minute boost of brain activity in the regions responsible for attention, concentration, and short-term memory.

2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:


java

The java is the dance of the moment among a certain less desirable crowd, and this prohibition is enough to keep out the desperadoes who foregather every afternoon at the Petit-Balcon dance hall down the street.

2015, Luc Sante, The Other Paris: An illustrated journey through a city's poor and Bohemian past, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:

A dance popular in France in the early 20th century.


mach

mach (nominative singular)
machy (nominative plural)
macha (genitive singular)
machów (genitive plural)
machowi (dative singular)
machom (dative plural)
mach (accusative singular)
machy (accusative plural)
machem (instrumental singular)
machami (instrumental plural)
machu (locative singular)
machach (locative plural)
machu (singular vocative)
machy (plural vocative)

Named after Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach.

named-after

(physics) Mach number (ratio of the speed of a body to that of sound in the surrounding medium)


Barnaby

* English surname of Aramaic origin, from בַּר נְבִיָּא (bar nəḇiyyā, literally “prophet’s son”).
* Also as an English surname, from Old English Beornwald, from beorn (“young warrior”) + wealdan (“rule”) + Old Norse býr (“farmstead”).

This day the sun is in his chiefest height
With Barnaby the Bright.

The name Barnaby may strike the reader as out of place in so Celtic a pedigree; but this was an anglicisation of the true name, Brian Oge - - - Now, times are altered, and his anglicised descendants will probably begin to use Brian as a family name again, rejecting Barnaby as less respectable.

1848, John O'Donovan, “The Annals of the Four Masters”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume 31, page 577:

Barnaby liked his own name. He was proud of its differentness and would never answer to "Barney", or any other nickname.

1962, Edward Eager, Seven-Day Magic, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 1999, →ISBN, page 8:

But instead of pressing the button that would have taped the play she pressed the button that activated the built-in microphone and recorded a hundred and twenty minutes of hers and Barnaby's home life, which aurally consisted of 'Want a cup of tea?' 'No thanks.'

A male given name from Hebrew, from the medieval vernacular form of Barnabas.


arkan

arkan (nominative singular)
arkanu (genitive singular)
arkanowi (dative singular)
arkan (accusative singular)
arkanem (instrumental singular)
arkanie (locative singular)
arkanie (singular vocative)

arkan (popular circle dance of the Ukrainian Hutsul people (from Hutsulshchyna, southwestern Ukraine))


passacaglia

en-noun

passacaglia (countable and uncountable, plural passacaglias)

Borrowed from Italian passacaglia, from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

(music) A form of historical Spanish or Italian dance characterised by a serious nature, triple metre, and use of a ground bass.


passacaglia

Borrowed from Spanish pasacalle, from pasar (“to pass”) + calle (“street”).

(music) passacaglia (historical Spanish dance)


tambourine

From French tambourin (“little drum”), from French tambour (“drum”). Ultimately from Arabic طُنْبُور (ṭunbūr); see it and Persian تنبور for more.

Tambourines are shy birds and do not tame easily.


floss

floss (countable and uncountable, plural flosses)

Uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *flos (attested in Middle English Flosmonger (a surname)), related to English fleece. Alternatively from French floche (“tuft of wool”), from floc, from Old French flosche (“down, velvet”), from Latin floccus (“piece of wool”), probably from Frankish *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flock”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”).
Cognate with Old High German flocko (“down”), Middle Dutch vlocke (“flock”), Norwegian dialectal flugsa (“snowflake”), Dutch flos (“plush”) (tr=17c.).

der

(British) Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".

A dance move in which the dancer repeatedly swings their arms, with clenched fists, from the back of their body to the front, on each side.


floss

en-verb

floss (third-person singular simple present flosses, present participle flossing, simple past and past participle flossed)

flosses (present singular third-person)
flossing (participle present)
flossed (participle past)
flossed (past)

(intransitive) To perform the floss dance move.


floss

Origin obscure. Perhaps of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian flos, flus (“rind, scale, strip peeled off”).

unk

obscure

Juncus effusus
Juncus effusus#Translingual

(Northern England, Scotland) The common rush (Juncus effusus).


balet

balet (nominative singular)
baletler (nominative plural)
baletniñ (genitive singular)
baletlerniñ (genitive plural)
baletke (dative singular)
baletlerge (dative plural)
baletni (accusative singular)
baletlerni (accusative plural)
balette (locative singular)
baletlerde (locative plural)
baletten (ablative singular)
baletlerden (ablative plural)


balet

balet (nominative singular)
balety (nominative plural)
baletu (genitive singular)
baletů (genitive plural)
baletu (dative singular)
baletům (dative plural)
balet (accusative singular)
balety (accusative plural)
balete (singular vocative)
balety (plural vocative)
baletu (locative singular)
baletě (locative singular)
baletech (locative plural)
baletem (instrumental singular)
balety (instrumental plural)


ballet

en-noun

ballet (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)

Borrowed from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“group dance”), from Late Latin ballō (“to dance”).

der

a classically-trained ballet dancer


ballet

Borrowed from English ballet, from French ballet, from Italian balletto (“short dance, ballet”), diminutive form of ballo (“ball”).


ballet

nl-noun

ballet n (plural balletten, diminutive balletje n)

balletten (plural)
balletje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: balèt

→ Papiamentu: balèt

Borrowed from French ballet, from Middle French ballet, from Italian balletto. An instance of spelling pronunciation.


ballet

es-noun

ballet m (countable and uncountable, plural ballets)


zouk

From French secouer (“to shake up”), via creole.

From 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Brooklyn’s own ReggaeLution band will perform, and at 9, D.J. Lumumba (a k a Revolution) will preside over an inclusive Caribbean dance party, from bachata to zouk and back again.

2007 August 3, The New York Times, “Dance Listings”, in New York Times:

(music) A style of dance music originating in the French Antilles, combining Latin American, African and Western disco rhythms; a dance to this music


habanera

en-noun

habanera (countable and uncountable, plural habaneras)

The music of Cuba has had a worldwide influence on forms of song and dance. René Buch who conceived and directed a musical “collage” called “¡Habana!” at the Repertorio Español on East 27th Street, points out the influence on Spain, for example, which received ‘habaneras’ and ‘contradanzas’ from Cuba; in this century, in the 1920's, the “rumba” and such songs as “El Manisero” and “Siboney” made their way north to become part of United States culture.

1982 December 27, Edward Rothstein, “Music: 40 Songs of Cuba”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page C12:


habanera

habanera (nominative singular)
habanery (nominative plural)
habanery (genitive singular)
habaner (genitive plural)
habaneře (dative singular)
habanerám (dative plural)
habaneru (accusative singular)
habanery (accusative plural)
habanero (singular vocative)
habanery (plural vocative)
habaneře (locative singular)
habanerách (locative plural)
habanerou (instrumental singular)
habanerami (instrumental plural)


habanera

habanera (nominative singular)
habanerat (nominative plural)
habanera (accusative nominative singular)
habanerat (accusative nominative plural)
habaneran (accusative genitive singular)
habanerat (accusative genitive plural)
habaneran (genitive singular)
habaneroiden (genitive plural)
habaneroitten (genitive plural)
habanerojen (genitive plural)
habanerain (genitive plural rare)
habaneraa (partitive singular)
habaneroita (partitive plural)
habaneroja (partitive plural)
habanerassa (inessive singular)
habaneroissa (inessive plural)
habanerasta (elative singular)
habaneroista (elative plural)
habaneraan (illative singular)
habaneroihin (illative plural)
habaneralla (adessive singular)
habaneroilla (adessive plural)
habaneralta (ablative singular)
habaneroilta (ablative plural)
habaneralle (allative singular)
habaneroille (allative plural)
habanerana (essive singular)
habaneroina (essive plural)
habaneraksi (singular translative)
habaneroiksi (plural translative)
habaneratta (abessive singular)
habaneroitta (abessive plural)
habaneroin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
habanerani (nominative singular)
habanerani (nominative plural)
habanerani (accusative nominative singular)
habanerani (accusative nominative plural)
habanerani (accusative genitive singular)
habanerani (accusative genitive plural)
habanerani (genitive singular)
habaneroideni (genitive plural)
habaneroitteni (genitive plural)
habanerojeni (genitive plural)
habaneraini (genitive plural rare)
habaneraani (partitive singular)
habaneroitani (partitive plural)
habanerojani (partitive plural)
habanerassani (inessive singular)
habaneroissani (inessive plural)
habanerastani (elative singular)
habaneroistani (elative plural)
habaneraani (illative singular)
habaneroihini (illative plural)
habanerallani (adessive singular)
habaneroillani (adessive plural)
habaneraltani (ablative singular)
habaneroiltani (ablative plural)
habaneralleni (allative singular)
habaneroilleni (allative plural)
habaneranani (essive singular)
habaneroinani (essive plural)
habanerakseni (singular translative)
habaneroikseni (plural translative)
habanerattani (abessive singular)
habaneroittani (abessive plural)
habaneroineni (comitative plural)
habanerasi (nominative singular)
habanerasi (nominative plural)
habanerasi (accusative nominative singular)
habanerasi (accusative nominative plural)
habanerasi (accusative genitive singular)
habanerasi (accusative genitive plural)
habanerasi (genitive singular)
habaneroidesi (genitive plural)
habaneroittesi (genitive plural)
habanerojesi (genitive plural)
habaneraisi (genitive plural rare)
habaneraasi (partitive singular)
habaneroitasi (partitive plural)
habanerojasi (partitive plural)
habanerassasi (inessive singular)
habaneroissasi (inessive plural)
habanerastasi (elative singular)
habaneroistasi (elative plural)
habaneraasi (illative singular)
habaneroihisi (illative plural)
habanerallasi (adessive singular)
habaneroillasi (adessive plural)
habaneraltasi (ablative singular)
habaneroiltasi (ablative plural)
habanerallesi (allative singular)
habaneroillesi (allative plural)
habaneranasi (essive singular)
habaneroinasi (essive plural)
habaneraksesi (singular translative)
habaneroiksesi (plural translative)
habanerattasi (abessive singular)
habaneroittasi (abessive plural)
habaneroinesi (comitative plural)
habaneramme (nominative singular)
habaneramme (nominative plural)
habaneramme (accusative nominative singular)
habaneramme (accusative nominative plural)
habaneramme (accusative genitive singular)
habaneramme (accusative genitive plural)
habaneramme (genitive singular)
habaneroidemme (genitive plural)
habaneroittemme (genitive plural)
habanerojemme (genitive plural)
habaneraimme (genitive plural rare)
habaneraamme (partitive singular)
habaneroitamme (partitive plural)
habanerojamme (partitive plural)
habanerassamme (inessive singular)
habaneroissamme (inessive plural)
habanerastamme (elative singular)
habaneroistamme (elative plural)
habaneraamme (illative singular)
habaneroihimme (illative plural)
habanerallamme (adessive singular)
habaneroillamme (adessive plural)
habaneraltamme (ablative singular)
habaneroiltamme (ablative plural)
habanerallemme (allative singular)
habaneroillemme (allative plural)
habaneranamme (essive singular)
habaneroinamme (essive plural)
habaneraksemme (singular translative)
habaneroiksemme (plural translative)
habanerattamme (abessive singular)
habaneroittamme (abessive plural)
habaneroinemme (comitative plural)
habaneranne (nominative singular)
habaneranne (nominative plural)
habaneranne (accusative nominative singular)
habaneranne (accusative nominative plural)
habaneranne (accusative genitive singular)
habaneranne (accusative genitive plural)
habaneranne (genitive singular)
habaneroidenne (genitive plural)
habaneroittenne (genitive plural)
habanerojenne (genitive plural)
habanerainne (genitive plural rare)
habaneraanne (partitive singular)
habaneroitanne (partitive plural)
habanerojanne (partitive plural)
habanerassanne (inessive singular)
habaneroissanne (inessive plural)
habanerastanne (elative singular)
habaneroistanne (elative plural)
habaneraanne (illative singular)
habaneroihinne (illative plural)
habanerallanne (adessive singular)
habaneroillanne (adessive plural)
habaneraltanne (ablative singular)
habaneroiltanne (ablative plural)
habanerallenne (allative singular)
habaneroillenne (allative plural)
habanerananne (essive singular)
habaneroinanne (essive plural)
habaneraksenne (singular translative)
habaneroiksenne (plural translative)
habanerattanne (abessive singular)
habaneroittanne (abessive plural)
habaneroinenne (comitative plural)
habaneransa (nominative singular)
habaneransa (nominative plural)
habaneransa (accusative nominative singular)
habaneransa (accusative nominative plural)
habaneransa (accusative genitive singular)
habaneransa (accusative genitive plural)
habaneransa (genitive singular)
habaneroidensa (genitive plural)
habaneroittensa (genitive plural)
habanerojensa (genitive plural)
habanerainsa (genitive plural rare)
habaneraansa (partitive singular)
habaneroitaan (partitive plural)
habanerojaan (partitive plural)
habaneroitansa (partitive plural)
habanerojansa (partitive plural)
habanerassaan (inessive singular)
habanerassansa (inessive singular)
habaneroissaan (inessive plural)
habaneroissansa (inessive plural)
habanerastaan (elative singular)
habanerastansa (elative singular)
habaneroistaan (elative plural)
habaneroistansa (elative plural)
habaneraansa (illative singular)
habaneroihinsa (illative plural)
habanerallaan (adessive singular)
habanerallansa (adessive singular)
habaneroillaan (adessive plural)
habaneroillansa (adessive plural)
habaneraltaan (ablative singular)
habaneraltansa (ablative singular)
habaneroiltaan (ablative plural)
habaneroiltansa (ablative plural)
habaneralleen (allative singular)
habanerallensa (allative singular)
habaneroilleen (allative plural)
habaneroillensa (allative plural)
habaneranaan (essive singular)
habaneranansa (essive singular)
habaneroinaan (essive plural)
habaneroinansa (essive plural)
habanerakseen (singular translative)
habaneraksensa (singular translative)
habaneroikseen (plural translative)
habaneroiksensa (plural translative)
habanerattaan (abessive singular)
habanerattansa (abessive singular)
habaneroittaan (abessive plural)
habaneroittansa (abessive plural)
habaneroineen (comitative plural)
habaneroinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈhɑ̝bɑ̝ˌne̞rɑ̝]


bus stop

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(education) The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.

(mathematics, informal) "&": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division

(preceded by "the") A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.

bus stop chicane
bus stop chicane#English

(motor racing) Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.


incwala

A Swazi ceremony that marks the first fruits of the harvest


bunny hug

(idiomatic) A style of early 20th-century dance, performed to ragtime music.


kolo

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kolo and Slovene kolo, from Proto-Slavic *kolo (“wheel”).

1942: As we came to this promenade … we heard the throbbing of a drum that announces a kolo, a communal dance. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 660)

A national folk dance common in regions pertaining to South Slavic people, performed in a circle.


kolo

kolo (nominative singular)
kola (genitive singular)
kolu (dative singular)
kolo (accusative singular)
kolem (instrumental singular)
kolu (locative singular)
kolo (singular vocative)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian kolo. Doublet of koło

kolo (national folk dance common in regions pertaining to South Slavic people, performed in a circle)


sarabande

Borrowed from French sarabande, from Spanish zarabanda.

(dance) A stately Baroque dance in slow triple time.


backslide

(dance) A dance move in which the feet are alternately slid back and the heels lifted, giving the illusion of walking forwards while actually moving backwards.


hustle

hustle (countable and uncountable, plural hustles)

From Dutch husselen or by metathesis from Dutch hutselen (“to shake up”), a frequentative of hutsen (“to stir, to move something (back and forth)”).

(preceded by a definite article) A type of disco dance, commonly danced to the Van McCoy song The Hustle (1975).


pole dance

en-verb

pole dance (third-person singular simple present pole dances, present participle pole dancing, simple past and past participle pole danced)

pole dances (present singular third-person)
pole dancing (participle present)
pole danced (participle past)
pole danced (past)

She pole-dances to gospel hymns.

2008, Andrea Gibson, Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns, page 7:

You know, it's that workout program where you pole dance and prance around like a stripper.

2009, Becky A. Bartness, How to Lose a Client, page 133:

I read that Cornelius Vanderbilt used to go for long walks to think. I pole danced.

Someone shouted from the background for them to pole dance.

2012, Emmy Grace, A Place in This World, page A-70:


hitchhiker

(preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer mimics the motions of someone thumbing a ride.


alivancă

alivenci (plural)
alivancă (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
alivanca (accusative definite nominative singular)
alivenci (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
alivencile (accusative definite nominative plural)
alivenci (indefinite singular)
alivencii (definite singular)
alivenci (indefinite plural)
alivencilor (definite plural)
alivancă (singular vocative)
alivanco (singular vocative)
alivencilor (plural vocative)

music that accompanies a folk dance of the same name.


vals

vals (indefinite nominative singular)
vals (genitive indefinite singular)
valsen (definite nominative singular)
valsens (definite genitive singular)
valser (indefinite nominative plural)
valsers (genitive indefinite plural)
valserna (definite nominative plural)
valsernas (definite genitive plural)


grizzly bear

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The Quantum Grizzly Bear pisses me off.

2024 May 16, very tall bart, [YTP] State of the Union, spoken by Jordan Peterson (Jordan Peterson):

Ursus arctos horribilis
Ursus arctos horribilis#Translingual

A large North American subspecies, Ursus arctos horribilis, of the brown bear.


fandango

en-noun

fandango (countable and uncountable, plural fandangos or fandangoes)

/ˈfæn.dæŋ.ɡəʊ/

Borrowed from Spanish fandango, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Portuguese fado, or of West African origin.

Coordinate term: bolero

The soldiers were oftener gambling and dancing beneath the walls than keeping watch upon the battlements, and nothing was heard from morning till night but the noisy contests of cards and dice, mingled with the sound of the bolero or fandango, the drowsy strumming of the guitar, and the rattling of the castanets, while often the whole was interrupted by the loud brawl and fierce and bloody contest.

1829, Washington Irving, chapter XXVI, in Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada:

We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor

1967, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, in Procol Harum, performed by Procol Harum:

I'm wearing a Spanish skirt so what's wrong with dancing a fandango.

2014, Rosie Harris, Looking For Love, page 179:

(music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina).


fandango

fandango (indefinite nominative singular)
fandangos (genitive indefinite singular)
fandangon (definite nominative singular)
fandangons (definite genitive singular)
fandangor (indefinite nominative plural)
fandangors (genitive indefinite plural)
fandangorna (definite nominative plural)
fandangornas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Spanish fandango. Attested since 1796.


time warp

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But as the reports on the Bild investigation suggest, the company’s workplace culture may be stuck in a time warp.

2021 October 17, Ben Smith, “At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.

(dance, preceded by definite article) A line dance popularized by the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which the dancers take a jump to the left, a step to the right, put their hands on their hips, bend their knees, thrust their pelvises, spin in a circle, jump forward and back, and wiggle.

(video games) Acceleration of in-game time relative to real-world time.


time warp

en-verb

time warp (third-person singular simple present time warps, present participle time warping, simple past and past participle time warped)

time warps (present singular third-person)
time warping (participle present)
time warped (participle past)
time warped (past)

(intransitive) To perform the time warp dance.


cakewalk

From cake + walk. Originally an African-American form of dance and music that developed after the Civil War, later popularised by minstrel shows. It was danced at social events, with the best dancers often receiving cake as a prize. It derives from dance competitions by plantation slaves in which the style of dance lampooned the ballroom dances of the slaveowners. Slaveowners seem to have found the competitions entertaining and the habit of offering cake may originate from this period. The name is sometimes also applied to the dance's precursor on the plantations. Doing the cakewalk well required virtuosity, and a major esthetic aspect of that virtuosity was the apparent ease with which the dance was performed. This gave rise to the idiom as easy as a cakewalk, which in turn led to the sense of cakewalk as something that is easy.
See the linked Wikipedia article for more.

(historical) A contest in which cake was offered for the best dancers.


chorea

en-noun

chorea (countable and uncountable, plural choreas or choreae or choreæ)

choreas (plural)
choreae (plural)
choreæ (plural)

An Ancient Greek circular dance accompanied by a chorus.


stomp

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.


tarantella

/ˌtɛɹənˈtɛlə/

/tæɹənˈtɛlə/

Borrowed from Italian tarantella, a diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”), on the belief that the dance was variously a result of, or cure for, its bite).

The set in which they found themselves was composed of English, and Amy was compelled to walk decorously through a cotillion, feeling all the while as if she could dance the tarantella with relish.

1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:

"A tarantella, I presume?" blandly suggested the doctor.
Miss Mannersley stopped, and rose carelessly from the piano. "It is a Moorish gypsy song of the fifteenth century," she said dryly.

1895, Bret Harte, The Devotion of Enriquez:

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

1922, Walter Lippmann, “chapter v”, in Public Opinion:

A rapid dance in 6/8 time, originating in Italy, or a piece of music for such a dance.


tarantella

Diminutive of Taranto, a town in southern Italy (but popularly associated with tarantola (“tarantula”).


jacks

(games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.


strathspey

After Strathspey, valley of the river Spey.

A Scottish dance with gliding steps, slower than a reel.


sprinkler

(preceded by definite article) A dance move in which the dancer places one hand on the head behind the ear, with elbow bent, stretches the other arm forwards and mimics the motions of an irrigation sprinkler with a rotary head.


allemande

Borrowed from French allemande (“German (dance)”).

A popular instrumental dance form in Baroque music, and a standard element of a suite, generally the first or second movement.


allemande

en-verb

allemande (third-person singular simple present allemandes, present participle allemanding, simple past and past participle allemanded)

allemandes (present singular third-person)
allemanding (participle present)
allemanded (participle past)
allemanded (past)

The gaudy splashes of lightning made it seem that some weird dance was going on, one where you threw your partner into the nearest tree instead of allemanding her, or dug your knee into his crotch instead of doing a do-si-do.


allemande

→ English: allemande


musette

2011 Tour de France
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Thor Hushovd

From both of the following:
* Late Middle English musette (“type of bagpipe”), from Middle French musette, Old French musette (“type of bagpipe”) (modern French musette), from muse (“bagpipe”) + -ette (diminutive suffix). Muse is derived from muser (“to play the bagpipe; (figuratively) to flatter”), perhaps from musel (“muzzle (protruding part of an animal’s head)”) (alluding to a bagpipe player puffing out the cheeks), from Late Latin mūsus (“muzzle”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps expressive of protruding lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgiō (“to bellow, low, moo”), from Proto-Indo-European *mug-, *mūg- (onomatopoeia of the lowing of cattle).
* Borrowed from French musette in the 18th century.
Sense 2 (“small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap”) is due to the resemblance of the original knapsack to the bag of bagpipes.

ref

From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York, U.S.A.

musette

any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows

(historical) Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th century.

(by extension) A pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating such an instrument; also, a dance performed to this music.

musette

pastoral air or tune that has a drone imitating this instrument; dance performed to this music

(historical) An organ stop using reed pipes with cone-shaped resonators, found in organs in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

musetti

A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.

(cycling):

The young gentleman had a musette over his shoulder.

1923, [Ernest Hemingway], “Out of Season”, in Three Stories […] & Ten Poems […], [Paris]: [Contact Publishing Company]; printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantière, →OCLC, page 13:

I gave them money for platform tickets and had them take my baggage. There was a big rucksack and two musettes.

1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 23, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 156:

Yossarian watched Chief White Halfoat pour whiskey carefully into three empty shampoo bottles and store them away in the musette bag he was packing.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Yo-Yo’s Roomies”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 362:

(chiefly US, originally military) In full musette bag: a small bag or knapsack with a shoulder strap, formerly used by soldiers, and now (cycling) chiefly by cyclists to hold food and beverages or other items.


foursome reel

a form of the Scottish highland dance in which groups of four dancers alternate between solo steps facing one another and a figure-of-eight style with intertwining progressive movement.


excuse me

请阁讲一摆

pháiⁿ-sè, chhiáⁿ koh kóng chi̍t-pái / phái-sè, chhiáⁿ koh kóng chi̍t-pái

什物？

sím-mi̍h? / sím-mi? / sím-mih? / sīm-mi̍h? / sám-mi̍h?

It was so hot I took off my clothes and sat by the window to cool off.
Excuse me?

(Canada, US) Said, as though as a request to repeat information, in order to indicate disbelief or indignation.


cucaracha

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish cucaracha.


conga

For the dance:
* Borrowed from Spanish Congo (“Congo dance”), so-called for being of sub-Saharan African origin.

The conga dance, with its long line that might eventually sweep in everybody in the place, and the kick on the fourth beat and the fruited headdress that were to become her trademarks.

1979, John Storm Roberts, The Latin Tinge, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 81–82:

(dance) A march of Cuban origin in four-four time in which people form a chain, each holding the hips of the person in front of them; in each bar, dancers take three shuffle steps and then kick alternate legs outwards at the beat; the chain weaves around the place and allows new participants to join the back of the chain.


csárdás

csárdás (nominative singular)
csárdásit (nominative plural)
csárdás (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásit (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásin (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásit (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásin (genitive singular)
csárdásien (genitive plural)
csárdásia (partitive singular)
csárdáseja (partitive plural)
csárdásissa (inessive singular)
csárdáseissa (inessive plural)
csárdásista (elative singular)
csárdáseista (elative plural)
csárdásiin (illative singular)
csárdáseihin (illative plural)
csárdásilla (adessive singular)
csárdáseilla (adessive plural)
csárdásilta (ablative singular)
csárdáseilta (ablative plural)
csárdásille (allative singular)
csárdáseille (allative plural)
csárdásina (essive singular)
csárdáseina (essive plural)
csárdásiksi (singular translative)
csárdáseiksi (plural translative)
csárdásitta (abessive singular)
csárdáseitta (abessive plural)
csárdásein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
csárdásini (nominative singular)
csárdásini (nominative plural)
csárdásini (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásini (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásini (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásini (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásini (genitive singular)
csárdásieni (genitive plural)
csárdásiani (partitive singular)
csárdásejani (partitive plural)
csárdásissani (inessive singular)
csárdáseissani (inessive plural)
csárdásistani (elative singular)
csárdáseistani (elative plural)
csárdásiini (illative singular)
csárdáseihini (illative plural)
csárdásillani (adessive singular)
csárdáseillani (adessive plural)
csárdásiltani (ablative singular)
csárdáseiltani (ablative plural)
csárdásilleni (allative singular)
csárdáseilleni (allative plural)
csárdásinani (essive singular)
csárdáseinani (essive plural)
csárdásikseni (singular translative)
csárdáseikseni (plural translative)
csárdásittani (abessive singular)
csárdáseittani (abessive plural)
csárdáseineni (comitative plural)
csárdásisi (nominative singular)
csárdásisi (nominative plural)
csárdásisi (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásisi (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásisi (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásisi (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásisi (genitive singular)
csárdásiesi (genitive plural)
csárdásiasi (partitive singular)
csárdásejasi (partitive plural)
csárdásissasi (inessive singular)
csárdáseissasi (inessive plural)
csárdásistasi (elative singular)
csárdáseistasi (elative plural)
csárdásiisi (illative singular)
csárdáseihisi (illative plural)
csárdásillasi (adessive singular)
csárdáseillasi (adessive plural)
csárdásiltasi (ablative singular)
csárdáseiltasi (ablative plural)
csárdásillesi (allative singular)
csárdáseillesi (allative plural)
csárdásinasi (essive singular)
csárdáseinasi (essive plural)
csárdásiksesi (singular translative)
csárdáseiksesi (plural translative)
csárdásittasi (abessive singular)
csárdáseittasi (abessive plural)
csárdáseinesi (comitative plural)
csárdásimme (nominative singular)
csárdásimme (nominative plural)
csárdásimme (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásimme (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásimme (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásimme (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásimme (genitive singular)
csárdásiemme (genitive plural)
csárdásiamme (partitive singular)
csárdásejamme (partitive plural)
csárdásissamme (inessive singular)
csárdáseissamme (inessive plural)
csárdásistamme (elative singular)
csárdáseistamme (elative plural)
csárdásiimme (illative singular)
csárdáseihimme (illative plural)
csárdásillamme (adessive singular)
csárdáseillamme (adessive plural)
csárdásiltamme (ablative singular)
csárdáseiltamme (ablative plural)
csárdásillemme (allative singular)
csárdáseillemme (allative plural)
csárdásinamme (essive singular)
csárdáseinamme (essive plural)
csárdásiksemme (singular translative)
csárdáseiksemme (plural translative)
csárdásittamme (abessive singular)
csárdáseittamme (abessive plural)
csárdáseinemme (comitative plural)
csárdásinne (nominative singular)
csárdásinne (nominative plural)
csárdásinne (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásinne (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásinne (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásinne (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásinne (genitive singular)
csárdásienne (genitive plural)
csárdásianne (partitive singular)
csárdásejanne (partitive plural)
csárdásissanne (inessive singular)
csárdáseissanne (inessive plural)
csárdásistanne (elative singular)
csárdáseistanne (elative plural)
csárdásiinne (illative singular)
csárdáseihinne (illative plural)
csárdásillanne (adessive singular)
csárdáseillanne (adessive plural)
csárdásiltanne (ablative singular)
csárdáseiltanne (ablative plural)
csárdásillenne (allative singular)
csárdáseillenne (allative plural)
csárdásinanne (essive singular)
csárdáseinanne (essive plural)
csárdásiksenne (singular translative)
csárdáseiksenne (plural translative)
csárdásittanne (abessive singular)
csárdáseittanne (abessive plural)
csárdáseinenne (comitative plural)
csárdásinsa (nominative singular)
csárdásinsa (nominative plural)
csárdásinsa (accusative nominative singular)
csárdásinsa (accusative nominative plural)
csárdásinsa (accusative genitive singular)
csárdásinsa (accusative genitive plural)
csárdásinsa (genitive singular)
csárdásiensa (genitive plural)
csárdásiaan (partitive singular)
csárdásiansa (partitive singular)
csárdásejaan (partitive plural)
csárdásejansa (partitive plural)
csárdásissaan (inessive singular)
csárdásissansa (inessive singular)
csárdáseissaan (inessive plural)
csárdáseissansa (inessive plural)
csárdásistaan (elative singular)
csárdásistansa (elative singular)
csárdáseistaan (elative plural)
csárdáseistansa (elative plural)
csárdásiinsa (illative singular)
csárdáseihinsa (illative plural)
csárdásillaan (adessive singular)
csárdásillansa (adessive singular)
csárdáseillaan (adessive plural)
csárdáseillansa (adessive plural)
csárdásiltaan (ablative singular)
csárdásiltansa (ablative singular)
csárdáseiltaan (ablative plural)
csárdáseiltansa (ablative plural)
csárdásilleen (allative singular)
csárdásillensa (allative singular)
csárdáseilleen (allative plural)
csárdáseillensa (allative plural)
csárdásinaan (essive singular)
csárdásinansa (essive singular)
csárdáseinaan (essive plural)
csárdáseinansa (essive plural)
csárdásikseen (singular translative)
csárdásiksensa (singular translative)
csárdáseikseen (plural translative)
csárdáseiksensa (plural translative)
csárdásittaan (abessive singular)
csárdásittansa (abessive singular)
csárdáseittaan (abessive plural)
csárdáseittansa (abessive plural)
csárdáseineen (comitative plural)
csárdáseinensa (comitative plural)
csárdás (nominative singular)
csárdákset (nominative plural)
csárdás (accusative nominative singular)
csárdákset (accusative nominative plural)
csárdáksen (accusative genitive singular)
csárdákset (accusative genitive plural)
csárdáksen (genitive singular)
csárdásten (genitive plural)
csárdáksien (genitive plural)
csárdásta (partitive singular)
csárdáksia (partitive plural)
csárdáksessa (inessive singular)
csárdáksissa (inessive plural)
csárdáksesta (elative singular)
csárdáksista (elative plural)
csárdákseen (illative singular)
csárdáksiin (illative plural)
csárdáksella (adessive singular)
csárdáksilla (adessive plural)
csárdákselta (ablative singular)
csárdáksilta (ablative plural)
csárdákselle (allative singular)
csárdáksille (allative plural)
csárdáksena (essive singular)
csárdáksina (essive plural)
csárdákseksi (singular translative)
csárdáksiksi (plural translative)
csárdáksetta (abessive singular)
csárdáksitta (abessive plural)
csárdáksin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
csárdákseni (nominative singular)
csárdákseni (nominative plural)
csárdákseni (accusative nominative singular)
csárdákseni (accusative nominative plural)
csárdákseni (accusative genitive singular)
csárdákseni (accusative genitive plural)
csárdákseni (genitive singular)
csárdásteni (genitive plural)
csárdáksieni (genitive plural)
csárdástani (partitive singular)
csárdáksiani (partitive plural)
csárdáksessani (inessive singular)
csárdáksissani (inessive plural)
csárdáksestani (elative singular)
csárdáksistani (elative plural)
csárdákseeni (illative singular)
csárdáksiini (illative plural)
csárdáksellani (adessive singular)
csárdáksillani (adessive plural)
csárdákseltani (ablative singular)
csárdáksiltani (ablative plural)
csárdákselleni (allative singular)
csárdáksilleni (allative plural)
csárdáksenani (essive singular)
csárdáksinani (essive plural)
csárdáksekseni (singular translative)
csárdáksikseni (plural translative)
csárdáksettani (abessive singular)
csárdáksittani (abessive plural)
csárdáksineni (comitative plural)
csárdáksesi (nominative singular)
csárdáksesi (nominative plural)
csárdáksesi (accusative nominative singular)
csárdáksesi (accusative nominative plural)
csárdáksesi (accusative genitive singular)
csárdáksesi (accusative genitive plural)
csárdáksesi (genitive singular)
csárdástesi (genitive plural)
csárdáksiesi (genitive plural)
csárdástasi (partitive singular)
csárdáksiasi (partitive plural)
csárdáksessasi (inessive singular)
csárdáksissasi (inessive plural)
csárdáksestasi (elative singular)
csárdáksistasi (elative plural)
csárdákseesi (illative singular)
csárdáksiisi (illative plural)
csárdáksellasi (adessive singular)
csárdáksillasi (adessive plural)
csárdákseltasi (ablative singular)
csárdáksiltasi (ablative plural)
csárdáksellesi (allative singular)
csárdáksillesi (allative plural)
csárdáksenasi (essive singular)
csárdáksinasi (essive plural)
csárdákseksesi (singular translative)
csárdáksiksesi (plural translative)
csárdáksettasi (abessive singular)
csárdáksittasi (abessive plural)
csárdáksinesi (comitative plural)
csárdáksemme (nominative singular)
csárdáksemme (nominative plural)
csárdáksemme (accusative nominative singular)
csárdáksemme (accusative nominative plural)
csárdáksemme (accusative genitive singular)
csárdáksemme (accusative genitive plural)
csárdáksemme (genitive singular)
csárdástemme (genitive plural)
csárdáksiemme (genitive plural)
csárdástamme (partitive singular)
csárdáksiamme (partitive plural)
csárdáksessamme (inessive singular)
csárdáksissamme (inessive plural)
csárdáksestamme (elative singular)
csárdáksistamme (elative plural)
csárdákseemme (illative singular)
csárdáksiimme (illative plural)
csárdáksellamme (adessive singular)
csárdáksillamme (adessive plural)
csárdákseltamme (ablative singular)
csárdáksiltamme (ablative plural)
csárdáksellemme (allative singular)
csárdáksillemme (allative plural)
csárdáksenamme (essive singular)
csárdáksinamme (essive plural)
csárdákseksemme (singular translative)
csárdáksiksemme (plural translative)
csárdáksettamme (abessive singular)
csárdáksittamme (abessive plural)
csárdáksinemme (comitative plural)
csárdáksenne (nominative singular)
csárdáksenne (nominative plural)
csárdáksenne (accusative nominative singular)
csárdáksenne (accusative nominative plural)
csárdáksenne (accusative genitive singular)
csárdáksenne (accusative genitive plural)
csárdáksenne (genitive singular)
csárdástenne (genitive plural)
csárdáksienne (genitive plural)
csárdástanne (partitive singular)
csárdáksianne (partitive plural)
csárdáksessanne (inessive singular)
csárdáksissanne (inessive plural)
csárdáksestanne (elative singular)
csárdáksistanne (elative plural)
csárdákseenne (illative singular)
csárdáksiinne (illative plural)
csárdáksellanne (adessive singular)
csárdáksillanne (adessive plural)
csárdákseltanne (ablative singular)
csárdáksiltanne (ablative plural)
csárdáksellenne (allative singular)
csárdáksillenne (allative plural)
csárdáksenanne (essive singular)
csárdáksinanne (essive plural)
csárdákseksenne (singular translative)
csárdáksiksenne (plural translative)
csárdáksettanne (abessive singular)
csárdáksittanne (abessive plural)
csárdáksinenne (comitative plural)
csárdáksensa (nominative singular)
csárdáksensa (nominative plural)
csárdáksensa (accusative nominative singular)
csárdáksensa (accusative nominative plural)
csárdáksensa (accusative genitive singular)
csárdáksensa (accusative genitive plural)
csárdáksensa (genitive singular)
csárdástensa (genitive plural)
csárdáksiensa (genitive plural)
csárdástaan (partitive singular)
csárdástansa (partitive singular)
csárdáksiaan (partitive plural)
csárdáksiansa (partitive plural)
csárdáksessaan (inessive singular)
csárdáksessansa (inessive singular)
csárdáksissaan (inessive plural)
csárdáksissansa (inessive plural)
csárdáksestaan (elative singular)
csárdáksestansa (elative singular)
csárdáksistaan (elative plural)
csárdáksistansa (elative plural)
csárdákseensa (illative singular)
csárdáksiinsa (illative plural)
csárdáksellaan (adessive singular)
csárdáksellansa (adessive singular)
csárdáksillaan (adessive plural)
csárdáksillansa (adessive plural)
csárdákseltaan (ablative singular)
csárdákseltansa (ablative singular)
csárdáksiltaan (ablative plural)
csárdáksiltansa (ablative plural)
csárdákselleen (allative singular)
csárdáksellensa (allative singular)
csárdáksilleen (allative plural)
csárdáksillensa (allative plural)
csárdáksenaan (essive singular)
csárdáksenansa (essive singular)
csárdáksinaan (essive plural)
csárdáksinansa (essive plural)
csárdáksekseen (singular translative)
csárdákseksensa (singular translative)
csárdáksikseen (plural translative)
csárdáksiksensa (plural translative)
csárdáksettaan (abessive singular)
csárdáksettansa (abessive singular)
csárdáksittaan (abessive plural)
csárdáksittansa (abessive plural)
csárdáksineen (comitative plural)
csárdáksinensa (comitative plural)

/ˈtʃɑːrdɑːʃ/

[ˈt̪ʃɑ̝ːrdɑ̝ːʃ]


csárdás

csárdások (plural)
csárdás (nominative singular)
csárdások (nominative plural)
csárdást (accusative singular)
csárdásokat (accusative plural)
csárdásnak (dative singular)
csárdásoknak (dative plural)
csárdással (instrumental singular)
csárdásokkal (instrumental plural)
csárdásért (causal-final singular)
csárdásokért (causal-final plural)
csárdássá (singular translative)
csárdásokká (plural translative)
csárdásig (singular terminative)
csárdásokig (plural terminative)
csárdásként (essive-formal singular)
csárdásokként (essive-formal plural)
csárdásban (inessive singular)
csárdásokban (inessive plural)
csárdáson (singular superessive)
csárdásokon (plural superessive)
csárdásnál (adessive singular)
csárdásoknál (adessive plural)
csárdásba (illative singular)
csárdásokba (illative plural)
csárdásra (singular sublative)
csárdásokra (plural sublative)
csárdáshoz (allative singular)
csárdásokhoz (allative plural)
csárdásból (elative singular)
csárdásokból (elative plural)
csárdásról (delative singular)
csárdásokról (delative plural)
csárdástól (ablative singular)
csárdásoktól (ablative plural)
csárdásé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
csárdásoké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
csárdáséi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
csárdásokéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
csárdásom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
csárdásaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
csárdásod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
csárdásaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
csárdása (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
csárdásai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
csárdásunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
csárdásaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
csárdásotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
csárdásaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
csárdásuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
csárdásaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

→ English: csardas

→ Polish: czardasz

→ Russian: чардаш (čardaš)

→ Yiddish: טשאַרדאַש (tshardash)

csardas (a traditional Hungarian folk dance)


hoedown

1835–45, Americanism; hoe + down. Social gathering after work time has finished

John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.

Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Guardian:

A type of American folk or square dance.


krumping

(US, especially Los Angeles) A free, expressive and energetic style of hip-hop dancing.


hucklebuck

The dance is perhaps from huckle (“hip”) + buck.

1948, Paul Williams, The hucklebuck, quoted in Talkin' that talk (1986), page 168

It's the dance you should know, when the lights are down low, / Grab your baby, then go, do the hucklebuck, do the hucklebuck, / If you don't know how to do it, boy, you're out of luck, / Push your partner out, then you hunch your back, / Have a little movement in your sacroiliac, / Wiggle like a snake, wobble like a duck, / That's the way you do it when you do the hucklebuck.

1949, Roy Alfred (lyrics), Andy Gibson (music)

1995, John W. Roberts, From Hucklebuck to Hip Hop: Social Dance in the African-American Community, →ISBN:

A rhythmic dance from the time just prior to rock and roll.

I am turtle soup, gator soup, tenderloin catfish, shrimp saute
Shrimp Samantha, fried shrimp, stuffed shrimp, peeled ice
shrimp, Crabmeat au gratin, berled crab, stuffed crab, Shrimp
Newberg, Shrimp etoufeé, Bananas Foster, Hubig’s Pies, Roman

1988, Arthur Pfister, "My Name is New Orleans", re-printed in Arthur Pfister, My Name is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry & Other Jazz, Margaret Media, Inc. (2009) →ISBN, page 5

So, we made soul food, hucklebucks,
corn pone, and bread pudding,
gumbo, and greyas.

2005, Mona Lisa Saloy, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, Truman State University Press, →ISBN, page 91:

We waited for the Good Humor ice cream truck to get ice cream on a stick, huckle bucks, popsicles, or vanilla or chocolate ice cream in a small cup.

2011, Beverly Jacques Anderson, Cherished Memories: Snapshots of Life and Lessons from a 1950s New Orleans Creole Village, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 47:

(New Orleans) A treat consisting of frozen Kool-Aid served in a dixie cup.


hucklebuck

en-verb

hucklebuck (third-person singular simple present hucklebucks, present participle hucklebucking, simple past and past participle hucklebucked)

hucklebucks (present singular third-person)
hucklebucking (participle present)
hucklebucked (participle past)
hucklebucked (past)

"We jumped* and boped*
and stamped around the floor,
we hucklebucked until my back is sore
but honey, wont you waltz with me once more*.

1948, Paul Williams, "The Hucklebuck", quoted in Jean-Paul Levet, Talkin' That Talk, Soul Bag (1986), page 168

The guys stood around the jukebox applejacking and hucklebucking to the music...

1957, Herbert Simmons, Corner Boy, Houghton Mifflin, published 1957, page 58:

[…] Thanks to jazz my toes don't knock no more. I cold-turkeyed to Bird doin 'Now's the Time,' and hucklebucked out a the spell of heroin. […]

1995, Wesley Brown, Tragic Magic, Ecco Press, →ISBN, page 37:

Macon hucklebucked eleven flights rather than risk one elevator stare.

2005, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: The Miscegenation of Macon Detornay, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 151:

It is only a game. I join the rhythmic clapping that always follows the fight song while the last of the players extracts himself from the stands and hucklebucks his way to join the milling, weight-shifting, pocketjammed team, […]

2011, Jay Nelson, Cold Creek, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 646:

To move quickly, with quick movements and, often, going in circles.


cotillion

/kəʊtɪlˈjɒ̃/

Circa 1750, in the sense of the dance, from French cotillon (“petticoat”), extended to the dance because of the distinctive lift of dress revealing the petticoat, from cotte (“dress”) + -illon (diminutive). Said to derive from the then-popular song Ma commère, quand je danse, mon cotillion va-t-il bien.

Mrs. Hughes now joined them, and asked Miss Tilney if she was ready to go. "I hope I shall have the pleasure of seeing you again soon," said Catherine. "Shall you be at the cotillion ball tomorrow?"

1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:

The second figure [of the dance] commenced, and I made a sad bungle; so I did of the third, and fourth, and fifth, for I never had danced a cotillon.

1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 200:

(dance) A bold dance performed in groups of eight where women lift their skirts to display their ankles.

1848 I kept a parlor open for the reception of visitors, many came here to practise with me, and many more to listen to us—several young men put themselves under my tuition, and although I had never been taught myself, they progressed finely in their studies and I soon brought out, not only the best field music, but also for dinners, balls, cotilion and tea parties, weddings, &c. THRILLING SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE DISTINGUISHED CHIEF OKAH TUBBEE ALIAS, WM. CHUBBEE, Son of the Head Chief, Mosholeh Tubbee, of theChoctaw Nation of Indians. BY REV. L. L. ALLEN, AUTHOR OF “PENCILLINGS UPON THE RIO GRANDE,” &c. NEW YORK, 1848. ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by Okah Tubbee, alias William Chubbee, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. AN ESSAY UPON THE INDIAN CHARACTER.http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/tubbee1848/tubbee1848.xml

(music) The music regulating the cotillion.

"Well," I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, "he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one." / "So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?" / I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 51:

At a desk outside the [Bernsteins’] door … I said, ‘Tom Wolfe,’ and sure enough, there he was, Tom Wolfe, listed on a yellow legal pad … Like any boy who has been instructed at cotillion to pay his respects to the host and hostess first … I sought out Leonard and Felicia Bernstein and introduced myself.

2018 May 29, Christopher Bonanos, “The Making of Tom Wolfe’s ‘Radical Chic’”, in Vulture:

(US) Ellipsis of cotillion ball.; a coming-of-age party meant to present girls newly transitioned into womanhood to the community for courtship.

cotillion ball

(textiles) A kind of woollen material for women's skirts.


cotillion

cotillion (third-person singular simple present cotillions, present participle cotillioning, simple past and past participle cotillioned)

cotillions (present singular third-person)
cotillioning (participle present)
cotillioned (participle past)
cotillioned (past)

/kəʊtɪlˈjɒ̃/

(intransitive, rare) To dance the cotillion.


Walzer

de-noun

Walzer m (strong, genitive Walzers, plural Walzer)

Walzers (genitive)
Walzer (plural)
Walzer (nominative singular)
Walzer (definite nominative plural)
Walzers (genitive singular)
Walzer (definite genitive plural)
Walzer (dative singular)
Walzern (dative definite plural)
Walzer (accusative singular)
Walzer (accusative definite plural)

→ Czech: valčík

→ English: waltz

→ Czech: waltz

→ Japanese: ワルツ

→ Hokkien: oa-lù-chuh

→ Korean: 왈츠 (walcheu)

→ French: valse (see there for further descendants)

→ Hungarian: valcer

→ Italian: valzer, walzer

→ Macedonian: валцер (valcer)

→ Polish: walc

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: валцер

Latin script: valcer

→ Slovak: valčík


Madison

en-proper noun

Madison (countable and uncountable, plural Madisons)

From Middle English Madde (“Maud”) + -son.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A locale in the United States; all named for James Madison unless otherwise indicated.

A census-designated place in Yolo County, California; named for Madison, Wisconsin.


獅子舞

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩² u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siː⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵ mou̯¹³/

/ʂʐ̩⁵⁵ d͡z̥z̩² u²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/siː⁵⁵ t͡siː³⁵ mou̯¹³/

lion dance (traditional Chinese dance where performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume)


獅子舞

ja-noun

獅(し)子(し)舞(まい) • (shishimai) ^(←ししまひ (sisimafi)?)

獅子舞 (canonical)
shishimai (romanization)
sisimafi (romanization)
ししまひ (hiragana historical)


quadrille

French, in sense of “group of knights”, from Spanish cuadrilla, diminutive of cuadra (“square”) (compare also cuadra (“four”)), from Latin quadra.

The movements of the other women were more or less similar to Tess's, the whole bevy of them drawing together like dancers in a quadrille at the completion of a sheaf by each, every one placing her sheaf on end against those of the rest, till a shock, or 'stitch' as it was here called, of ten or a dozen was formed.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume II, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:

(dance) A dance originating in the mid-1700s with four couples forming a square, rather much like the modern square dance.


folk dance

en-noun

folk dance (countable and uncountable, plural folk dances)

Any dance traditionally performed by the common people of a specific region.


corroboree

He reached home, and lived long enough to hear the natives wailing in a Death Corroboree over his late comrade.

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IV, in Capricornia, page 52:

A song or chant made for such a festivity.


paso doble

Borrowed from Spanish pasodoble, from paso doble (“double step”).

A fast Spanish ballroom dance in double time.


paso doble

paso doble (nominative singular)
paso doble (nominative plural)
paso doble (genitive singular)
paso doble (genitive plural)
paso doble (dative singular)
paso doble (dative plural)
paso doble (accusative singular)
paso doble (accusative plural)
paso doble (singular vocative)
paso doble (plural vocative)
paso doble (locative singular)
paso doble (locative plural)
paso doble (instrumental singular)
paso doblem (instrumental singular)
paso doble (instrumental plural)


paso doble

fr-noun

paso doble m (plural paso dobles or pasos dobles)

paso dobles (plural)
pasos dobles (plural)

Borrowed from Spanish pasodoble, from paso (“step”) + doble (“double”).


moonwalk

From Moon + walk.
* (backslide): Coined by Michael Jackson in 1983, when popularizing the backslide and renaming it.

(dance) A dance move in which the dancer slides backwards though the feet move as if walking forwards; the backslide.


moonwalk

nl-noun

moonwalk m (plural moonwalken, diminutive moonwalkje n)

moonwalken (plural)
moonwalkje (diminutive neuter)


moonwalk

Unadapted borrowing from English moonwalk

ubor

fazer o moonwalk


Charleston

From Charles + -ton. The places are named after various men named "Charles"; see definitions below.

A number of places in the United States:

A city, the county seat of Coles County, Illinois; after Charles Morton, its first postmaster.

Charleston County
Charleston County#English

A city, the county seat of Charleston County, South Carolina; after Charles II of England.

The capital city of West Virginia, United States and the county seat of Kanawha County; perhaps after Charles Clendenin, the father of an early settler.


Macarena

/ˌmækəˈɹeɪnə/

/ˌmɑkəˈɹeɪnə/

From the Spanish female given name Macarena, which is the title of a well-known song from 1993 by Spanish duo Los del Río.

Oh yeah, they were doing the Macarena up and down Saint Peter’s back in twelve ninety-two.

2000 January 15, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

(often preceded by definite article) A particular line dance with a set of simple arm movements and exaggerated hip motion performed to a fast Latin rhythm.


Macarena

It is disputed whether it comes from Ancient Greek μακάριος (makários, “blessed, happy”), or from the homonymous neighborhood in Seville, from Arabic [Term?].

unk

disputed

der

a female given name from Ancient Greek or Arabic


popping

en-noun

popping (countable and uncountable, plural poppings)

filtered-popping recursive transition network

A style of funk dance involving rapid contractions and relaxations of the muscles to switch between poses.


bailé

head

bailé m (genitive singular bailé, nominative plural bailéanna)

bailé (genitive singular)
bailéanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
bailé (indefinite singular)
bailéanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a bhailé (indefinite singular)
a bhailéanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an bailé (definite singular)
na bailéanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
an bhailé (definite singular)
na mbailéanna (definite plural)
dative (definite)
leis an mbailé (definite singular)
don bhailé (definite singular)
leis na bailéanna (definite plural)
bailé
bhailé
mbailé

Borrowed from English ballet, from French, from Italian balletto.


cha-cha

From Cuban/Latin American Spanish cha-cha, imitative of the music.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(dance) A ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm.


cha-cha

cha-cha (nominative singular)
cha-chat (nominative plural)
cha-cha (accusative nominative singular)
cha-chat (accusative nominative plural)
cha-chan (accusative genitive singular)
cha-chat (accusative genitive plural)
cha-chan (genitive singular)
cha-chaiden (genitive plural)
cha-chaitten (genitive plural)
cha-chata (partitive singular)
cha-chaita (partitive plural)
cha-chassa (inessive singular)
cha-chaissa (inessive plural)
cha-chasta (elative singular)
cha-chaista (elative plural)
cha-chahan (illative singular)
cha-chaihin (illative plural)
cha-challa (adessive singular)
cha-chailla (adessive plural)
cha-chalta (ablative singular)
cha-chailta (ablative plural)
cha-challe (allative singular)
cha-chaille (allative plural)
cha-chana (essive singular)
cha-chaina (essive plural)
cha-chaksi (singular translative)
cha-chaiksi (plural translative)
cha-chatta (abessive singular)
cha-chaitta (abessive plural)
cha-chain (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
cha-chani (nominative singular)
cha-chani (nominative plural)
cha-chani (accusative nominative singular)
cha-chani (accusative nominative plural)
cha-chani (accusative genitive singular)
cha-chani (accusative genitive plural)
cha-chani (genitive singular)
cha-chaideni (genitive plural)
cha-chaitteni (genitive plural)
cha-chatani (partitive singular)
cha-chaitani (partitive plural)
cha-chassani (inessive singular)
cha-chaissani (inessive plural)
cha-chastani (elative singular)
cha-chaistani (elative plural)
cha-chahani (illative singular)
cha-chaihini (illative plural)
cha-challani (adessive singular)
cha-chaillani (adessive plural)
cha-chaltani (ablative singular)
cha-chailtani (ablative plural)
cha-challeni (allative singular)
cha-chailleni (allative plural)
cha-chanani (essive singular)
cha-chainani (essive plural)
cha-chakseni (singular translative)
cha-chaikseni (plural translative)
cha-chattani (abessive singular)
cha-chaittani (abessive plural)
cha-chaineni (comitative plural)
cha-chasi (nominative singular)
cha-chasi (nominative plural)
cha-chasi (accusative nominative singular)
cha-chasi (accusative nominative plural)
cha-chasi (accusative genitive singular)
cha-chasi (accusative genitive plural)
cha-chasi (genitive singular)
cha-chaidesi (genitive plural)
cha-chaittesi (genitive plural)
cha-chatasi (partitive singular)
cha-chaitasi (partitive plural)
cha-chassasi (inessive singular)
cha-chaissasi (inessive plural)
cha-chastasi (elative singular)
cha-chaistasi (elative plural)
cha-chahasi (illative singular)
cha-chaihisi (illative plural)
cha-challasi (adessive singular)
cha-chaillasi (adessive plural)
cha-chaltasi (ablative singular)
cha-chailtasi (ablative plural)
cha-challesi (allative singular)
cha-chaillesi (allative plural)
cha-chanasi (essive singular)
cha-chainasi (essive plural)
cha-chaksesi (singular translative)
cha-chaiksesi (plural translative)
cha-chattasi (abessive singular)
cha-chaittasi (abessive plural)
cha-chainesi (comitative plural)
cha-chamme (nominative singular)
cha-chamme (nominative plural)
cha-chamme (accusative nominative singular)
cha-chamme (accusative nominative plural)
cha-chamme (accusative genitive singular)
cha-chamme (accusative genitive plural)
cha-chamme (genitive singular)
cha-chaidemme (genitive plural)
cha-chaittemme (genitive plural)
cha-chatamme (partitive singular)
cha-chaitamme (partitive plural)
cha-chassamme (inessive singular)
cha-chaissamme (inessive plural)
cha-chastamme (elative singular)
cha-chaistamme (elative plural)
cha-chahamme (illative singular)
cha-chaihimme (illative plural)
cha-challamme (adessive singular)
cha-chaillamme (adessive plural)
cha-chaltamme (ablative singular)
cha-chailtamme (ablative plural)
cha-challemme (allative singular)
cha-chaillemme (allative plural)
cha-chanamme (essive singular)
cha-chainamme (essive plural)
cha-chaksemme (singular translative)
cha-chaiksemme (plural translative)
cha-chattamme (abessive singular)
cha-chaittamme (abessive plural)
cha-chainemme (comitative plural)
cha-channe (nominative singular)
cha-channe (nominative plural)
cha-channe (accusative nominative singular)
cha-channe (accusative nominative plural)
cha-channe (accusative genitive singular)
cha-channe (accusative genitive plural)
cha-channe (genitive singular)
cha-chaidenne (genitive plural)
cha-chaittenne (genitive plural)
cha-chatanne (partitive singular)
cha-chaitanne (partitive plural)
cha-chassanne (inessive singular)
cha-chaissanne (inessive plural)
cha-chastanne (elative singular)
cha-chaistanne (elative plural)
cha-chahanne (illative singular)
cha-chaihinne (illative plural)
cha-challanne (adessive singular)
cha-chaillanne (adessive plural)
cha-chaltanne (ablative singular)
cha-chailtanne (ablative plural)
cha-challenne (allative singular)
cha-chaillenne (allative plural)
cha-chananne (essive singular)
cha-chainanne (essive plural)
cha-chaksenne (singular translative)
cha-chaiksenne (plural translative)
cha-chattanne (abessive singular)
cha-chaittanne (abessive plural)
cha-chainenne (comitative plural)
cha-chansa (nominative singular)
cha-chansa (nominative plural)
cha-chansa (accusative nominative singular)
cha-chansa (accusative nominative plural)
cha-chansa (accusative genitive singular)
cha-chansa (accusative genitive plural)
cha-chansa (genitive singular)
cha-chaidensa (genitive plural)
cha-chaittensa (genitive plural)
cha-chataan (partitive singular)
cha-chatansa (partitive singular)
cha-chaitaan (partitive plural)
cha-chaitansa (partitive plural)
cha-chassaan (inessive singular)
cha-chassansa (inessive singular)
cha-chaissaan (inessive plural)
cha-chaissansa (inessive plural)
cha-chastaan (elative singular)
cha-chastansa (elative singular)
cha-chaistaan (elative plural)
cha-chaistansa (elative plural)
cha-chahansa (illative singular)
cha-chaihinsa (illative plural)
cha-challaan (adessive singular)
cha-challansa (adessive singular)
cha-chaillaan (adessive plural)
cha-chaillansa (adessive plural)
cha-chaltaan (ablative singular)
cha-chaltansa (ablative singular)
cha-chailtaan (ablative plural)
cha-chailtansa (ablative plural)
cha-challeen (allative singular)
cha-challensa (allative singular)
cha-chailleen (allative plural)
cha-chaillensa (allative plural)
cha-chanaan (essive singular)
cha-chanansa (essive singular)
cha-chainaan (essive plural)
cha-chainansa (essive plural)
cha-chakseen (singular translative)
cha-chaksensa (singular translative)
cha-chaikseen (plural translative)
cha-chaiksensa (plural translative)
cha-chattaan (abessive singular)
cha-chattansa (abessive singular)
cha-chaittaan (abessive plural)
cha-chaittansa (abessive plural)
cha-chaineen (comitative plural)
cha-chainensa (comitative plural)

/ˈtʃɑtʃɑ(ː)/

[ˈt̪ʃɑ̝t̪ʃɑ̝(ː)]

cha-cha (ballroom dance to a Latin American rhythm)


valsa

Borrowed from French valse, from German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn”).


valso

eo-head

valso (accusative singular valson, plural valsoj, accusative plural valsojn)

valson (accusative singular)
valsoj (plural)
valsojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from French valse, German Walzer, English waltz, etc.


valse

→ Arabic: فَالْس (fāls)

→ English: valse

→ Greek: βαλς (vals)

→ Manx: valse

→ Ottoman Turkish: والس (vals)

Turkish: vals

→ Persian: والس (vâls)

→ Portuguese: valsa

→ Romanian: vals

→ Russian: вальс (valʹs) (see there for further descendants)

→ Ukrainian: вальс (valʹs)


running man

(preceded by definite article) A dance move popular in the late 1980s to early 1990s, characterized by running movements done in place with hands going in an alternating forward-backward motion.


łacina

łaciński (adjective)
łacina (nominative singular)
łaciny (genitive singular)
łacinie (dative singular)
łacinę (accusative singular)
łaciną (instrumental singular)
łacinie (locative singular)
łacino (singular vocative)

Latin (language of the ancient Romans, other Latins, and of the Roman Catholic church, especially Classical Latin)


hornpipe

From Middle English hornpipe, hornpype, hornepipe, equivalent to horn + pipe; so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

(music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes at intervals.

A solo dance commonly associated with seamen, involving kicking of the legs, with the arms mostly crossed.

A hard-shoe solo dance commonly performed in Irish stepdance, usually danced in 2/4 time.


gavotte

From French, from Provençal gavoto (“dance of the mountain people”), from Old Occitan Gavot (“Alp native”), literally “glutton, boor,” from gaver (“force feed”), from Old Provençal gava (“crop”); attested since the 1690s.

der

A French dance, in either 4/4 or 2/2 time.


gavotte

en-verb

gavotte (third-person singular simple present gavottes, present participle gavotting, simple past and past participle gavotted)

gavottes (present singular third-person)
gavotting (participle present)
gavotted (participle past)
gavotted (past)

You had one eye in the mirror as / you watched yourself gavotte / And all the girls dreamed that they'd be your partner / They'd be your partner, and / You're so vain

1972, Carly Simon (lyrics and music), “You're so Vain” (0:36 from the start) (audio recording), performed by Carly Simon, Rhino/Elektra, published 2017:


cancan

They formed up, in perfect silence, in two lines, facing each other between us and the fire, and then the dance - a sort of infernal and fiendish cancan - began.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

A high-kicking chorus line dance originating in France.


cancan

cancan (nominative singular)
cancanit (nominative plural)
cancan (accusative nominative singular)
cancanit (accusative nominative plural)
cancanin (accusative genitive singular)
cancanit (accusative genitive plural)
cancanin (genitive singular)
cancanien (genitive plural)
cancania (partitive singular)
cancaneja (partitive plural)
cancanissa (inessive singular)
cancaneissa (inessive plural)
cancanista (elative singular)
cancaneista (elative plural)
cancaniin (illative singular)
cancaneihin (illative plural)
cancanilla (adessive singular)
cancaneilla (adessive plural)
cancanilta (ablative singular)
cancaneilta (ablative plural)
cancanille (allative singular)
cancaneille (allative plural)
cancanina (essive singular)
cancaneina (essive plural)
cancaniksi (singular translative)
cancaneiksi (plural translative)
cancanitta (abessive singular)
cancaneitta (abessive plural)
cancanein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
cancanini (nominative singular)
cancanini (nominative plural)
cancanini (accusative nominative singular)
cancanini (accusative nominative plural)
cancanini (accusative genitive singular)
cancanini (accusative genitive plural)
cancanini (genitive singular)
cancanieni (genitive plural)
cancaniani (partitive singular)
cancanejani (partitive plural)
cancanissani (inessive singular)
cancaneissani (inessive plural)
cancanistani (elative singular)
cancaneistani (elative plural)
cancaniini (illative singular)
cancaneihini (illative plural)
cancanillani (adessive singular)
cancaneillani (adessive plural)
cancaniltani (ablative singular)
cancaneiltani (ablative plural)
cancanilleni (allative singular)
cancaneilleni (allative plural)
cancaninani (essive singular)
cancaneinani (essive plural)
cancanikseni (singular translative)
cancaneikseni (plural translative)
cancanittani (abessive singular)
cancaneittani (abessive plural)
cancaneineni (comitative plural)
cancanisi (nominative singular)
cancanisi (nominative plural)
cancanisi (accusative nominative singular)
cancanisi (accusative nominative plural)
cancanisi (accusative genitive singular)
cancanisi (accusative genitive plural)
cancanisi (genitive singular)
cancaniesi (genitive plural)
cancaniasi (partitive singular)
cancanejasi (partitive plural)
cancanissasi (inessive singular)
cancaneissasi (inessive plural)
cancanistasi (elative singular)
cancaneistasi (elative plural)
cancaniisi (illative singular)
cancaneihisi (illative plural)
cancanillasi (adessive singular)
cancaneillasi (adessive plural)
cancaniltasi (ablative singular)
cancaneiltasi (ablative plural)
cancanillesi (allative singular)
cancaneillesi (allative plural)
cancaninasi (essive singular)
cancaneinasi (essive plural)
cancaniksesi (singular translative)
cancaneiksesi (plural translative)
cancanittasi (abessive singular)
cancaneittasi (abessive plural)
cancaneinesi (comitative plural)
cancanimme (nominative singular)
cancanimme (nominative plural)
cancanimme (accusative nominative singular)
cancanimme (accusative nominative plural)
cancanimme (accusative genitive singular)
cancanimme (accusative genitive plural)
cancanimme (genitive singular)
cancaniemme (genitive plural)
cancaniamme (partitive singular)
cancanejamme (partitive plural)
cancanissamme (inessive singular)
cancaneissamme (inessive plural)
cancanistamme (elative singular)
cancaneistamme (elative plural)
cancaniimme (illative singular)
cancaneihimme (illative plural)
cancanillamme (adessive singular)
cancaneillamme (adessive plural)
cancaniltamme (ablative singular)
cancaneiltamme (ablative plural)
cancanillemme (allative singular)
cancaneillemme (allative plural)
cancaninamme (essive singular)
cancaneinamme (essive plural)
cancaniksemme (singular translative)
cancaneiksemme (plural translative)
cancanittamme (abessive singular)
cancaneittamme (abessive plural)
cancaneinemme (comitative plural)
cancaninne (nominative singular)
cancaninne (nominative plural)
cancaninne (accusative nominative singular)
cancaninne (accusative nominative plural)
cancaninne (accusative genitive singular)
cancaninne (accusative genitive plural)
cancaninne (genitive singular)
cancanienne (genitive plural)
cancanianne (partitive singular)
cancanejanne (partitive plural)
cancanissanne (inessive singular)
cancaneissanne (inessive plural)
cancanistanne (elative singular)
cancaneistanne (elative plural)
cancaniinne (illative singular)
cancaneihinne (illative plural)
cancanillanne (adessive singular)
cancaneillanne (adessive plural)
cancaniltanne (ablative singular)
cancaneiltanne (ablative plural)
cancanillenne (allative singular)
cancaneillenne (allative plural)
cancaninanne (essive singular)
cancaneinanne (essive plural)
cancaniksenne (singular translative)
cancaneiksenne (plural translative)
cancanittanne (abessive singular)
cancaneittanne (abessive plural)
cancaneinenne (comitative plural)
cancaninsa (nominative singular)
cancaninsa (nominative plural)
cancaninsa (accusative nominative singular)
cancaninsa (accusative nominative plural)
cancaninsa (accusative genitive singular)
cancaninsa (accusative genitive plural)
cancaninsa (genitive singular)
cancaniensa (genitive plural)
cancaniaan (partitive singular)
cancaniansa (partitive singular)
cancanejaan (partitive plural)
cancanejansa (partitive plural)
cancanissaan (inessive singular)
cancanissansa (inessive singular)
cancaneissaan (inessive plural)
cancaneissansa (inessive plural)
cancanistaan (elative singular)
cancanistansa (elative singular)
cancaneistaan (elative plural)
cancaneistansa (elative plural)
cancaniinsa (illative singular)
cancaneihinsa (illative plural)
cancanillaan (adessive singular)
cancanillansa (adessive singular)
cancaneillaan (adessive plural)
cancaneillansa (adessive plural)
cancaniltaan (ablative singular)
cancaniltansa (ablative singular)
cancaneiltaan (ablative plural)
cancaneiltansa (ablative plural)
cancanilleen (allative singular)
cancanillensa (allative singular)
cancaneilleen (allative plural)
cancaneillensa (allative plural)
cancaninaan (essive singular)
cancaninansa (essive singular)
cancaneinaan (essive plural)
cancaneinansa (essive plural)
cancanikseen (singular translative)
cancaniksensa (singular translative)
cancaneikseen (plural translative)
cancaneiksensa (plural translative)
cancanittaan (abessive singular)
cancanittansa (abessive singular)
cancaneittaan (abessive plural)
cancaneittansa (abessive plural)
cancaneineen (comitative plural)
cancaneinensa (comitative plural)

[ˈkɑ̝ŋˌkɑ̝n]

[ˈk̟æŋˌk̟æn]


cancan

Supposedly, this word originates with a dispute at the Collège de France circa 1550, over whether to use a traditional French pronunciation of Latin or a reconstructed pronunciation of Latin. One of the points of most dispute was the pronunciation of qu, with the word quamquam exemplifying this: it was pronounced in reconstructed Latin as [ˈkʷam.kʷã(m)] but pronounced in French Latin as /kɑ̃.kɑ̃/ ("cancan"). After this debacle, a "cancan" came to be "any kind of scandalous performance".


two-step

The dancing shadows on the wall / (The two-step in the hall)

1977, Jeff Lynne (lyrics and music), “Turn to Stone”, performed by Electric Light Orchestra:

(dance) A ballroom dance in duple time, having long, sliding steps.


zamacueca

An ancient colonial dance and music that originated in the Viceroyalty of Peru, taking its roots from African, Spanish, and Andean rhythms.


zamacueca

→ English: zamacueca, cueca

(Chile, Peru) a folk dance and the music that goes with it


siciliana

(dance) A Sicilian dance, resembling the pastorale, set to a slow and graceful melody in 12-8 or 6-8 measure.