| 单词 | jitterbugging |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈjitterbugging ˈjitterbugging n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > shaking or jiving dances > [noun] twist1894 shimmy1918 shimmying1919 shimmy shiver1919 heebie-jeebies1923 shimmy shake1925 shimmy-fox1926 shag1932 jitterbugging1938 jitterbug1939 jive1943 the Shake1946 swim1965 society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > shaking or jiving dances > [adjective] shimmying1919 jitterbugging1938 1938 San Francisco Call-Bull. 8 Dec. 17/1 ‘Jitter~bugging is just a phase,’ he said... ‘It isn't music. This town wants real music and nothing else will do.’ 1939 San Francisco Examiner 17 Sept. 2/2 I love ballroom dancing and I usually do just that, but at times I find it a job to express my joy of living by doing a little jitter~bugging. 1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end xxii. 390 Jitterbugging had then [1939] just come over from the United States..an ecstatic mode of dancing to fast swing music in which the two partners could perform absolutely any..acrobatic feat they liked. 1942 A. P. Jephcott Girls growing Up iii. 63 The slick, apparently assured, smoking, jitterbugging town girl of sixteen still regards friendliness as the all-important feature of any group with which she intends to associate. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) ii. 20 He did not dance, but..vigorously nodded with approval when a jitter~bugging pair desisted. 1973 G. Durrell Beasts in my Belfry v. 105 The only folk dances I have ever witnessed were danced by elderly, aesthetic ladies with fringes and strings of beads and they were nothing like the gnus' wild jitterbugging. < as lemmas |
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