单词 | foxtrot |
释义 | foxtrotn. 1. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > trot trotc1386 trottingc1460 jog1635 succussation1646 jog-trot1796 juba1825 Canterbury trot1830 foxtrot1872 fadge1873 trotlet1879 1872 F. M. A. Roe Army Lett. (1909) 70 He has a fox trot, which is wonderfully easy. 1888 Cent. Mag. Oct. 36 897 She heard a horse approaching at a fox-trot. 1898 R. Kipling Day's Work 64 Would you consider a fox-trot, an' single-foot, an' rack, an' pace, an' amble, distinctions not worth distinguishin'? 1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 134 Fox trot, a slow, shuffling trot, the fox-trot is one of the gaits permitted in a five-gaited saddler as a ‘slow-gait’. 2. A modern dance, of American origin, consisting chiefly of alternating measures of long and short steps; also, a piece of music suitable as an accompaniment for the foxtrot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others quickstep1793 turkey-trot1839 racket1880 Military Schottische1882 veleta1900 military two-step1911 one-step1911 spot dance1911 Paul Jones1914 foxtrot1915 foxtrotting1916 Maxina1917 Boston two-step1918 slow foxtrot1918 twinkle1920 camel-walk1921 Charleston1923 slop1962 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > dance music > [noun] > others galliard1545 passamezzo1568 pavane1591 passy-measure1597 rant1656 passacaglia1659 passacaille1667 chaconne1685 rigadoon1690 passepied1696 rigaudon1708 bourrée1776 minuet de la cour1783 quadrille1802 treble1805 pigeon wing1807 polka1825 redowa1843 polka time1844 écossaise1863 verbunkos1880 drag1901 foxtrot1915 burru1929 rumba1931 palais glide1936 Lambeth Walk1937 jitterbug1939 high life1942 Zydeco1949 hand jive1958 hand jiving1958 hokey-cokey1966 twist1966 chicken scratch1972 smoocher1976 funana1981 New Beat1988 trance dance1988 1915 Truth 17 Mar. 1/5 A new dance, the ‘Fox-trot’, a relation of..‘Ragtime’. 1915 Victor Record Catal. May Dance records... Fox trots. 1917 Hearst's Aug. 136/2 The others were dancing the foxtrot to the victrola on the piazza. 1919 G. D'Egville How & what to Dance (1922) 55 The Fox-Trot is a dance of many steps, and to the casual observer everybody seems to have different ones. 1919 E. Scott All about Latest Dances 68 The true basis of the American Fox-Trot is an alternation of four slow and four or eight quick movements, depending on the step chosen. 1923 E. Scott A.B.C. of Dancing 84 The foxtrot is not a dance in the sense that the waltz and polka are dances because it has no distinctive rhythm and no characteristic step or figure. 1928 Melody Maker Feb. 127/1 You have just heard a fox-trot, ‘I call her honey because she sticks to me’. 1946 R. Capell Simiomata ii. 48 Kirou remembers Macaskie singing foxtrots. Derivatives ˈfoxtrot v. intransitive to dance a foxtrot. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > dance ballroom dance [verb (intransitive)] > others one-step1913 foxtrot1919 twinkle1920 Charleston1927 quickstep1928 1919 Punch 26 Feb. 166/2 I've fox-trotted in Stranraer, Irish-jigged in Mullingar. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean v. 75 A dozen couples..fox-trotted in a clear space of the forward deck. 1967 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (rev. ed.) xiii. 254 On the Cunard liner Pannonia which left Greece on May 18, 1919..I learned to foxtrot. ˈfoxtrotter n. one who foxtrots. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others > dancer foxtrotter1919 Charlestoner1927 1919 E. Scott All about Latest Dances 72 Some fox-trotters spin round at intervals on the soles of their feet. ˈfoxtrotting n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > others quickstep1793 turkey-trot1839 racket1880 Military Schottische1882 veleta1900 military two-step1911 one-step1911 spot dance1911 Paul Jones1914 foxtrot1915 foxtrotting1916 Maxina1917 Boston two-step1918 slow foxtrot1918 twinkle1920 camel-walk1921 Charleston1923 slop1962 1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 July 3/7 Such [folk] dances should not be classed with fox-trotting, bunny-hugging, Wilson gliding, [etc.]. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial i. 18 He seems to have spent most of his time perfecting his golf game and his fox-trotting abilities. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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