"fandango" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfæn.dæŋ.ɡəʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fandango.wav [Southern-England] Forms: fandangos [plural], fandangoes [plural]
Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fandango, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Portuguese fado, or of West African origin. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|fandango}} Spanish fandango, {{cog|pt|fado}} Portuguese fado Head templates: {{en-noun|~|s|fandangoes}} fandango (countable and uncountable, plural fandangos or fandangoes)
  1. (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). Wikidata QID: Q1130969 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Dance, Music, Dances Translations (music and dance): fandango [masculine] (French), fandangue [masculine] (French), Fandango (German), fandango [masculine] (Italian), фанда́нго (fandángo) (Russian), fandango [masculine] (Spanish), fandango [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-en:Q1130969 Disambiguation of Dances: 32 10 3 2 3 8 7 22 14 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 9 6 6 7 10 3 25 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 5 4 7 6 24 3 24 4 Topics: dance, dancing, entertainment, hobbies, lifestyle, music, sports Disambiguation of 'music and dance': 83 14 0 3 0 0 0
  2. A gathering for dancing; a ball. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-9DcRbuN0
  3. (figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption. Tags: colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-kOadJdH2
  4. A confusion; a chaotic collection. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-DNzb3HYM
  5. An extravaganza; an instance of lavish and fantastical events or behavior. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-q8YWnCpv
  6. A shade of red-violet. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Purples
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-Iem71M6x Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 9 6 6 7 10 3 25 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 5 4 7 6 24 3 24 4
  7. (euphemistic) Vagina. Tags: countable, euphemistic, uncountable
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-noun-a9t2vOiH Categories (other): English euphemisms

Verb

IPA: /ˈfæn.dæŋ.ɡəʊ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fandango.wav [Southern-England] Forms: fandangos [present, singular, third-person], fandangoing [participle, present], fandangoed [participle, past], fandangoed [past]
Rhymes: -æŋɡəʊ Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish fandango, of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Portuguese fado, or of West African origin. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|fandango}} Spanish fandango, {{cog|pt|fado}} Portuguese fado Head templates: {{en-verb}} fandango (third-person singular simple present fandangos, present participle fandangoing, simple past and past participle fandangoed)
  1. (dance) To dance the fandango. Categories (topical): Dance
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-verb-ws6gfQd5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 31 9 6 6 7 10 3 25 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 5 4 7 6 24 3 24 4 Topics: dance, dancing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (figuratively) To dance, particularly with a lot of energy. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-fandango-en-verb-VZ4niCi-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2019 July 1, “Chukkas for charity on Hua Hin sands”, in Tatler Thailand",
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          "text": "Coordinate term: bolero"
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          "ref": "1829, Washington Irving, chapter XXVI, in Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada",
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          "ref": "1967, “A Whiter Shade of Pale”, in Procol Harum, performed by Procol Harum",
          "text": "We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Rosie Harris, Looking For Love, page 179",
          "text": "I'm wearing a Spanish skirt so what's wrong with dancing a fandango.",
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          "ref": "2008, Gene Fowler, Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters, page 38",
          "text": "When Auguste Fretéllière and the painter Theodore Gentilz attended a fandango in the 1840s, the festivities took place near Military Plaza.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Alec Dempster, Lotería Jarocha: Linoleum Prints, page 66",
          "text": "Fortunately, in the nineteenth century Iosé Maria Esteva wrote a poetic and detailed account of 'La guanabana' being danced by a group of women at a fandango.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A gathering for dancing; a ball."
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        {
          "text": "What’s that fandango you’re using?",
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        {
          "ref": "1878, Lumasea, Ruined, and how, page 25",
          "text": "She had on a new silk dress, flounced clear up to her knees, and some kind of a fandango of a thing on her shoulders.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An unknown entity or contraption."
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        "(figurative, colloquial) An unknown entity or contraption."
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    },
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        {
          "ref": "1901, Marcian, Relics of the Late William Shakespeare, page 21",
          "text": "To my infinite amusement it did take, and I had the satisfaction of seeing it on the boards and also hearing the audience roar with laughter; in fact, I laughed myself, not at my own jokes, but at the people who could be amused at such a fandango of nonsense.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Albert Craig Baird, Essays and Addresses Toward a Liberal Education, page 213",
          "text": "A splotch of colour on a wall charmed his eye, a fandango of shadows, the nonchalant pose of some labourer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1950, Garnett Weston, Legacy of Fear, page 136",
          "text": "Such a fandango of wicked lies Mrs. Love had never heard tell in all her born days.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, David Grossman, The Book of Intimate Grammar: A Novel",
          "text": "So it must have been appalling, a veritable stab in the belly, when these undreamed-of smells infiltrated the familiar ranks, assailing her nostrils with a gypsy effrontery, a fandango of exotic spice.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, page A-285",
          "text": "\"She was latin, and she was satin” a commotion by moonlight a conundrum by candlelight a fandango of respite and tailbones in an invertebratology of polyclads, skates, chitons, and vestigial gills",
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        }
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        "A confusion; a chaotic collection."
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          "ref": "1849, Robert Murray Keith, Memoirs and Correspondence (official and Familiar), page 45",
          "text": "I am preparing to set out in a fortnight, or little more, and jogging on comfortably through Bavaria, Suabia, and France (with a fandango of eight days at Paris), I shall get to Calais in the first week of May.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Toby Cole, Venice, a Portable Reader, page 38",
          "text": "Venice whirled towards her fall, in the reign of the 120th Doge, in a fandango of high living and enjoyment, until at last Napoleon, brusquely deposing her ineffective Government, ended the Republic and handed the Serenissima contemptuously to the Austrians.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Theatre Record - Volume 22, Issues 19-26, page 1292",
          "text": "Scaramouche, what a fandango of a life.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2019 July 1, “Chukkas for charity on Hua Hin sands”, in Tatler Thailand",
          "text": "Highlights of the recent high society swirl include jewellery and watch collection debuts, champagne celebrations, boutique store openings, hi-tech art and product launches and fashion fandangos aplenty.",
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          "text": "So, what? She strangled her and stuck a broken bottle up her... fandango?",
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        "Vagina."
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        "(euphemistic) Vagina."
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      "word": "fandango"
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