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单词 dingolay
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dingolayv.

Brit. /ˈdɪŋɡəʊleɪ/, U.S. /ˈdɪŋɡoʊˌleɪ/, Caribbean English /ˈdɪŋɡoːleː/
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from Kongo. Etymon: Kongo dyengula.
Etymology: Apparently ultimately (probably via French Creole) < Kongo dyengula to make (something) round, to turn < a verbal base -dyeng- to go round and round, to roll, to spin + the separative extension -ul-, here apparently used to reinforce a sense of repeated action.An alternative suggestion taking the word to be < French dégringoler to tumble, fall down (see dégringolade n.), seems less likely on formal and semantic grounds.
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.
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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).
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