单词 | dingolay |
释义 | dingolayv. Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad and Tobago). intransitive and transitive (reflexive). To dance in an exuberant or uninhibited way. Also more generally: to twist or turn one's body.Quot. 1935 probably shows an imperative use of the verb. Within the song, the expression only appears as a refrain, without context. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > style or manner of dancing > [verb (intransitive)] frisk?1520 hobble1535 caper1598 to cut a caper or capersa1616 to dance Barnaby1664 to dance low1667 jig1672 to fike and flinga1689 shuffle1819 slow-step1909 dingolay1935 touch-dance1972 headbang1977 to funk out1979 to strut one's funky stuff1979 krump2004 1935 ‘Keskidee Trio’ (title of record) Dingo Lay. 1936 ‘King Radio’ et al. Monkey (song) in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 298/1 Well look, I dingolay meself, monkey dingolay too. 1941 G. Smith Many a Green Isle xix. 264 One of the young lady singers would dart out to dingolay and shake herself like jelly. 1992 ‘Shadow’ Music (transcribed from song) in Winston Bailey is Shadow Music have no friends or enemies. Everybody could dingolay. 2008 Trinidad & Tobago Newsday 25 Jan. in https://archives.newsday.co.tt (accessed 30 Jan. 2020) Masqueraders usually assemble in one of Woodbrook's beautiful squares before storming the capital and dingolaying through the city streets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1935 |
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