toyi-toyin.
/ˈtɔɪtɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈtɔɪˌtɔɪ/, South African English /ˈtɔɪtɔɪ/ South African.
A high-stepping dance-like movement performed either on the spot or while moving slowly forwards, typically by participants in protests and public demonstrations, and often accompanied by chanting or singing. Also occasionally: a chant or song of the type typically accompanying this.Apparently originating among (predominantly black) activists during the anti-apartheid protests of the 1980s, and based on the physical training exercises of guerrilla camps.
ΚΠ
1985 Guardian 2 Sept. 1/4 There was the excitement of the Toyitoyi—the training song of the ANC guerrillas.
1986 Evening Post (S. Afr.) 21 Mar. 3 People sang freedom songs honouring Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, and danced the ‘toyi-toyi’.
2000 G. Marinovich & J. Silva Bang-bang Club (2001) viii. 124 They sang, ‘Mimi, we loved you. Mimi, we loved you,’ as they danced the militant toyi-toyi all the way to the cemetery.
2011 D. Schmahmann Ivory from Paradise xvii. 245 All he sees is pandemonium, wet-shirted men stamping in place, singing, yelling, thrusting their fists rhythmically into the air as they perform the toyi toyi.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
toyi-toyiv.
/ˈtɔɪtɔɪ/, U.S. /ˈtɔɪˌtɔɪ/, South African English /ˈtɔɪtɔɪ/ South African.
intransitive. To perform the toyi-toyi (toyi-toyi n.); to protest against someone or something in this way.
ΚΠ
1987 New Nation (S. Afr.) 6 Aug. 19/4 As soon as the Buffels were out of sight, small crowds of youths started to toi-toi down the street singing: ‘I am a guerilla.’
1997 D. Murphy South from Limpopo (1999) vii. 139 Comrades set about teaching me essential Xhosa phrases and how to toyi-toyi.
2010 Sowetan (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 9 Sept. Why are we failing ourselves every five years by voting for the same government we were toyi-toying against for lack of service delivery yesterday?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1985v.1987- data glove
- data handling
- data highway
- data integrity
- data link
- data logger
- data logging
- data loss
- data mart
- data marting
- data mining
- data packet
- data path
- data point
- data port
- data processing
- data processor
- data protection
- data reduction
- data retrieval
- data security
- data sheet
- data smog
- data stream
- data structure