单词 | polking |
释义 | polkingn. Now rare. The action or practice of dancing the polka. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > lively dances > [noun] > others hove-dance1390 tricotee1659 saltarello1724 écossaise1806 fling1806 carmagnole1827 gallopade1831 gallopading1833 polka1837 redowa1843 chicken dance1845 polking1845 schottische1849 Highland or Balmoral Schottische1882 kinkajou1927 knees up, Mother Brown1939 chicken1957 1845 R. Browning Let. 9 June (1898) I. 94 Yet to you I boasted once of polking and waltzing and more. 1848 E. Gray Let. in M. Lutyens Ruskins & Grays (1972) x. 95 I got introduced to good partners and got some good polking. 1853 J. R. Planché Mr. Buckstone's Ascent Mt. Parnassus 30 Each night to some Casino..Where I am pulled by fast young men about And with eternal polking quite worn out. 1924 M. Minnigerode Fabulous Forties iv. 82 Ladies..must never say snooze, pants, gents, seedy, rich for amusing, or ‘polking’ for dancing the polka. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † polkingadj. Obsolete. Of a person: that dances the polka.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1856 ‘G. Eliot’ Silly Novels by Lady Novelists in Westm. Rev. Oct. 445 She is a polking polyglott, a Creuzer in crinoline. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1845adj.1856 |
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