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▪ I. sashay, n. N. Amer.|sæˈʃeɪ|
[f. next.]
1. A venture, a sally; an excursion, trip, or expedition.
1900G. Ade More Fables 184 Lutie never got out of her Dream until she made a bold Sashay with a Concert Company. 1935H. L. Davis Honey in Horn 15 If you yank him out for any all-night sashay on these roads, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. 1941Sat. Even. Post 16 Aug. 68/3 On my first sashay into the flying field. 1952E. B. White Let. 6 Apr. (1976) 355 Spring is making little sashays about coming to town, but it has been a fairly unconvincing demonstration so far. 1961R. M. Patterson Buffalo Head v. 183 He could make a long sashay north along the foot of the range. 1968― Finlay's River 147 Swannell, Copley and Alexander and the two dogs..set out for a three-day sashay up the strong creek that flowed into the Ingenika.
2. A step in square dancing (see quot. c 1940). Also transf. and attrib.
c1940Square Dance (Writers' Program, Illinois) 40 The Sashay is a series of short quick steps directly to the side, either to the right or to the left... The gent holds the lady's left hand in his right, and her right hand in his left. 1941R. J. McNair Western Square Dances xix. 78 The Sashay step is a quick side step. 1956R. Holden Contra Dance Bk. iv. 45 Sashay, the American chassez. 1971Flying (N.Y.) Apr. 49/1 It's got a marvelous sort of sashay movement because it's such a big airplane that when you roll you can feel those booms kind of rolling around behind you. 1974‘J. Marks’ Mick Jagger 32 The juvenile Jagger... Trying a few quick sashays and eating a banana.
▪ II. sashay, v. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).|sæˈʃeɪ|
Also sasshay, sashy.
[Mispronunciation of chassé v.]
1. intr.
a. To perform a chassé, esp. in square dancing; freq. transf., to perform a movement similar to the chassé.
b. To glide, walk, or travel, usu. in a casual manner.
c. To move diagonally or sideways; to travel an irregular path; to wander or saunter.
d. To move or walk ostentatiously, conspicuously, or provocatively; to strut or parade. Freq. with adv.
1836Franklin Repository (Chambersburg, Pa.) 4 Oct. 1/3 If you don't sashay across, button your lip, and go home quietly, you and I will have to promenade all around, and swing corners into the watch house. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. vii, The Doctor looked as if he should like to rigadoon and sashy across as well as the young one he was talkin' about. 1865‘Mark Twain’ in Californian 18 Mar. 8/1 For all they're so handy about keeping her sasshaying around from shanty to shanty..none of 'em's ever got a good word for her. 1878F. H. Hart Sazerac Lying Club 83 S'pose, gentlemen, that we sashay up to the bar. 1888J. C. Harris Free Joe, etc. 49 What were you doing sasshaying around in his room last night? 1891B. Harte First Fam. Tasajara II. vii, Ye remember how he sashayed round newspaper offices in Frisco until he could write a flapdoodle story himself? 1905Dialect Notes III. 64 They sashayed back and forth to beat the band. 1913C. E. Mulford Coming of Cassidy v. 80 Logan..is about thirty miles east. You must 'a sashayed some to get only this far in four days. 1917H. Garland Son of Middle Border xv. 163 At dancing parties they balanced or ‘sashayed’ in Honest John or Money Musk. 1935Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. v. 113 John was callin' for de new set: ‘Choose yo' partners.’.. ‘Sashay all.’ 1942E. Paul Narrow St. ix. 74 He staggered eastward toward the Panthéon and I sashayed westward to the rue Lafayette. 1944C. Himes Black on Black (1973) 201, I picked up my sack and sorta sashayed off. 1949K. M. Wells Owl Pen Reader (1969) iii. 246 Fireflies danced by Moonstone Creek. They dipped and cavorted, they sashayed like a million wee stars gone mad. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris v. 114 Instead of continuing toward the rue de la Huchette, Christophe hopped and sashayed to the left. 1960F. Raphael Limits of Love i. iii. 41 A large Negro..was sashaying through the crowd towards them. 1968J. Updike Couples iv. 311 Sashaying from the shower nude, her pussy of a ferny freshness. 1973S. Alsop Stay of Execution (1974) ii. 201 Stewart brought a pretty..girl friend home. As she sashayed through the living room, Andrew remarked, ‘I like the way she wiggles her things.’ 1978J. A. Michener Chesapeake 270 He hoped that Nelly Turlock would not sashay in, demanding dividends for her family. Ibid. 545, I see her sashayin' past in a dress I know she stole from Miss Susan.
2. trans. To cause (someone or something) to sashay; to walk or parade (a person); to carry or convey (an object); to manœuvre (a vehicle).
1928L. H. Nason Sergeant Eadie 130 What the hell good a rifle does to me sashayin' these jugheads up an' down the road, I don't know. 1944J. S. Pennell Hist. Rome Hanks 189 Take them guns thar—tuck 'em from the Yanks at the fust battle of Manassas, an' been a-farin' 'em eveh since an' sashayin' 'em all oveh hell an Vuhginny. 1963T. Pynchon V. i. 22 Rachel would gee and haw this MG around Route 17's bloodthirsty curves and cutbacks, sashaying its arrogant butt past hay wagons. 1977J. Gardner Werewolf Trace i. 17 ‘James Bond rules. Okay?’ chuckled Bud, sashaying the car neatly between a pair of taxis.
Hence saˈshaying vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1935R. Stout League of Frightened Men xx. 272 It did mean his sashaying out of the house twice in two days, which was an all-time record. 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 109/1 He'd start with a fusillade of rim shots, sink into a sashaying figure that strode back and forth between his tomtoms. |