pata-patan.
/pɑːtəˈpɑːtə/, U.S. /ˌpɑdəˈpɑdə/, South African English /pɑːtəˈpɑːtə/ South African.
1. A type of sensuous dance especially popular in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s; the jazz-influenced music (usually kwela) that accompanies this.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > South Africa
vastrap1913
gumboot dance1956
pata-pata1961
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > folk or country dance > African
vastrap1944
kwela1958
pata-pata1961
1956 D. Masuka (title of song) Pata pata.]
1961 New Statesman 3 Mar. 358/3 King Kong's..own property..the Patha Patha (touch-touch) dancing.
1976 Time 28 June 21 Soweto families prefer to visit..a shebeen..for stronger drinks and the sensuous local music called pathapatha.
1988 New Nation (Johannesburg) 14–20 Jan. 9 Where are..the young mingled with the old doing the cassanova, pata-pata or even a bit of fly jazz..?
2002 P. Theroux Dark Star Safari (2003) xv. 340 But I still love pata-pata. It's not Mozart!
2. slang. Sexual intercourse.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse
ymonec950
moneOE
meanc1175
manredc1275
swivinga1300
couplec1320
companyc1330
fellowred1340
the service of Venusc1350
miskissinga1387
fellowshipc1390
meddlinga1398
carnal knowinga1400
flesha1400
knowledgea1400
knowledginga1400
japec1400
commoning?c1425
commixtionc1429
itc1440
communicationc1450
couplingc1475
mellingc1480
carnality1483
copulation1483
mixturea1500
Venus act?1507
Venus exercise?1507
Venus play?1507
Venus work?1507
conversation?c1510
flesh-company1522
act?1532
carnal knowledge1532
occupying?1544
congression1546
soil1555
conjunction1567
fucking1568
rem in re1568
commixture1573
coiture1574
shaking of the sheets?1577
cohabitation1579
bedding1589
congress1589
union1598
embrace1599
making-outa1601
rutting1600
noddy1602
poop-noddy1606
conversinga1610
carnal confederacy1610
wapping1610
businessa1612
coition1615
doinga1616
amation1623
commerce1624
hot cocklesa1627
other thing1628
buck1632
act of love1638
commistion1658
subagitation1658
cuntc1664
coit1671
intimacy1676
the last favour1676
quiffing1686
old hat1697
correspondence1698
frigging1708
Moll Peatley1711
coitus1713
sexual intercourse1753
shagging1772
connection1791
intercourse1803
interunion1822
greens1846
tail1846
copula1864
poking1864
fuckeea1866
sex relation1871
wantonizing1884
belly-flopping1893
twatting1893
jelly roll1895
mattress-jig1896
sex1900
screwing1904
jazz1918
zig-zig1918
other1922
booty1926
pigmeat1926
jazzing1927
poontang1927
relations1927
whoopee1928
nookie1930
hump1931
jig-a-jig1932
homework1933
quickie1933
nasty1934
jig-jig1935
crumpet1936
pussy1937
Sir Berkeley1937
pom-pom1945
poon1947
charvering1954
mollocking1959
leg1967
rumpy-pumpy1968
shafting1971
home plate1972
pata-pata1977
bonking1985
legover1985
knobbing1986
rumpo1986
fanny1993
1977 P. C. Venter Soweto 127 Phata-phata, sex.
1979 A. Brink Dry White Season 84 ‘Others looking for phata-phata’—illustrated by pushing his thumb through two fingers in the immemorial sign.
1994 H. Holland Born in Soweto ii. 33 An aggressive 16-year-old..is repeating phata-phata, meaning sex, in a monotonous, drugged tone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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