bunny hugn.
A dance in ragtime rhythm, esp. popular in the early part of the 20th century.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]
mashed potato1747
bunny hug1912
chicken scratch1912
bunny-hugging1916
jazz1919
black bottom1925
shuffle1925
Mess Around1926
snake hips1933
Susie-Q1936
Lambeth Walk1937
bunny hop1938
bop1956
pony1961
Watusi1961
locomotion1962
mash potato1962
frug1964
hully gully1964
dancercise1967
pogo1977
moonwalking1980
slam dance1981
slam dancing1981
body-popping1982
b-boying1984
mosh1985
moshing1987
1912 Daily Mirror 6 Jan. 7/1 Fashionable society in New York..is fighting upon the great question as to whether..‘The Bunny Hug’..shall be..allowed.
1924 Chambers's Jrnl. May 310/2 The fox-trot or the bunny-hug of your London restaurants.
1937 Evening News 26 Jan. 9/4 Some time ago many people were dancing the bunny hug.
1954 S. G. L. Dannett & F. R. Rachel Down Memory Lane 70 The bunny hug survived its contemporaries and made the transition to jazz.
Derivatives
ˈbunny-ˌhugger n.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun] > dancer
bunny-hugger1914
line dancer1928
slam dancer1981
body-popper1983
slammer1983
moonwalker1986
mosher1990
1914 Art (U.S.) 290 It is not in the souls of the bunny-huggers that the new ferment is potent.
bunny-ˌhugging n.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun]
mashed potato1747
bunny hug1912
chicken scratch1912
bunny-hugging1916
jazz1919
black bottom1925
shuffle1925
Mess Around1926
snake hips1933
Susie-Q1936
Lambeth Walk1937
bunny hop1938
bop1956
pony1961
Watusi1961
locomotion1962
mash potato1962
frug1964
hully gully1964
dancercise1967
pogo1977
moonwalking1980
slam dance1981
slam dancing1981
body-popping1982
b-boying1984
mosh1985
moshing1987
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 July 3/7 Such dances should not be classed with fox-trotting, bunny-hugging, Wilson gliding, [etc.].
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. xiii He had often..watched the dancing on deck—funny business nowadays, shimmying, bunnyhugging, didn't they call it?
Draft additions September 2019
Canadian. A hooded sweatshirt.Chiefly in Saskatchewan.Recorded earliest as a modifier.
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1978 Shellbrook (Sask.) Chron. 21 June 14/6 Lost—at Memorial Lake Sun., June 18th, one rust colored bunny hug jacket, with prescription sunglasses in pocket.
1982 Trade Marks Jrnl. (Canada) 28 Apr. 4/2 Wares: men's and ladies' clothing, namely, shirts, t-shirts,..bunny hugs, jumpers.
2017 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 29 Nov. (Early ed.) a3 He is wearing a blue bunny hug.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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