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单词 foxtrot
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foxtrotn.

Etymology: < fox n. + trot n.1
1. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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