| 释义 |
Watusi|wəˈtuːsɪ|
Also Watussi, Watutsi.
[Native name.]
1. The name of a minority racial group in Rwanda and Burundi, probably of Ethiopic or Nilotic origin, which formerly dominated the majority Hutu people; a member of this group. Also attrib. or as adj. Also called Tutsi.
1899H. A. Nesbitt tr. P. Kollmann's Victoria Nyanza ii. 13 None of the large cattle adorned with magnificent horns which we find everywhere else among the Wahuma and Watussi are to be noticed in Uganda. 1937John o' London's 5 Feb. 765/1 The Watussi still preserve certain rites and customs analogous to those which are known to have been operative in Ancient Egypt. 1959A. Moorehead No Room in Ark ii. 66 The Watusi are celebrated hunters, very tall and lithe. 1960Guardian 7 June 4/1 Watutsi pastoralists..are encircling the Birunga. 1976D. Topolski Muzungu xv. 227 Noel was a Watutsi and had been adopted at an early age by a farmer from New Zealand.
2. (Also with lower-case initial.) A popular dance of the 1960s. Also as v. intr.
1964Time 20 Mar. 62/3 (caption) Watutsiing at Whisky à Gogo. Ibid., A pretty eyeful slaps on new records and dances it all by herself. That way, it's called the Watutsi. 1965[see hip-swinging adj. s.v. hip n.1 4 b]. 1966Punch 20 July 116/1 They..fed on lotus and daiquiri, they frugged and watutsied. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 105 Nefastis had been watching on his TV set a bunch of kids dancing some kind of a Watusi. 1966H. Nielson After Midnight (1967) xvi. 213 She could teach you to watusi and swim. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 213/3 Dances evolved from the twist, such as the frug, the jerk, and the watusi, were invariably performed by shaking the pelvis. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. vi. 244 They danced the frug, the swim, and the watusi. |