polkamanian.
/ˌpɒlkəˈmeɪnɪə/, U.S. /ˌpoʊ(l)kəˈmeɪniə/ Now historical.
A mania for dancing the polka.
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polkamania1844
1844 E. J. Knox Let. 14 Aug. in A. E. Blake Mem. Vanished Generation (1909) viii. 217 Polkamania..has raged very fiercely amongst us, indeed all over London this year.
1883 W. B. Squire in G. Grove Dict. Music III. 8/1 Vienna, Paris, and London were successively attacked by this curious ‘polkamania’; clothes, hats, and streets were named after the dance.
1932 P. Balfour Society Racket i. 35 Polkamania was every bit as rife in the 'forties as jazzmania in the nineteen-twenties.
1989 Atlantic Aug. 80/1 Paris in 1844 was not only the place and time of the triumph of polkamania, but also [etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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