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ˈbunny ˌhug
[f. bunny2 1 a + hug n.]
A dance in ragtime rhythm, esp. popular in the early part of the 20th century. Hence ˈbunny-ˌhugger, -ˌhugging.
1912Daily Mirror 6 Jan. 7/1 Fashionable society in New York..is fighting upon the great question as to whether..‘The Bunny Hug’..shall be..allowed. 1914Art (U.S.) 290 It is not in the souls of the bunny-huggers that the new ferment is potent. 1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 11 July 3/7 Such dances should not be classed with fox-trotting, bunny-hugging, Wilson gliding, [etc.]. 1926Galsworthy Silver Spoon ii. vi. 158 What is there to give up—bunny-hugging? 1937Evening News 26 Jan. 9/4 Some time ago many people were dancing the bunny hug. 1954Dannett & Rachel Down Memory Lane 70 The bunny hug survived its contemporaries and made the transition to jazz. |