waltzern.
/ˈwɔːl(t)sə/, /ˈwɒl(t)sə/, U.S. /ˈwɔl(t)sər/, /ˈwɑl(t)sər/ a. One who dances the waltz.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > ballroom dancing > [noun] > waltz > dancer
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1811 Sporting Mag. 38 220 The music at first is slow, but, as the Waltzers get animated, it rises to a jig.
1811 Ld. Glenbervie Jrnls. (1910) 139 Both great walzers, and insufferable coxcombs.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvii. 422 My Lord George Gaunt..was one of the finest waltzers in Europe.
1912 Times 28 Sept. 11/5 Special prizes are given this season for the best waltzers.
b. A name for a breed of domesticated mice which have the habit of spinning round rapidly; = waltzing mouse at waltz v. Derivatives.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Mus or mouse > mus musculus or house mouse > waltzing mouse
waltzing mouse1896
Japanese waltzing mouse1902
Japanese waltzer1904
waltzer1904
1904 Biometrika 3 6 All the waltzers used were of pure strain.
1904 Biometrika 3 6 The offspring produced by crossing a Japanese waltzer with an albino.
c. A fairground ride (see quots. 19611, 1968).
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride > merry-go-round
carousel1673
whimsic chair?c1684
whimsy1684
merry-go-round1729
roundabout1763
turnabout1789
whirligig1816
spin-'em-round1851
go-round1857
whirly-go-round1865
merry-go-around1873
giddy-go-round1879
go-around1888
razzle-dazzle1890
joy-wheel1911
chairoplane1922
whip1925
Noah's Ark1945
waltzer1961
swirl1962
1961 F. C. Roope Come to Fair iii. 71 The Waltzer, an appropriate name for an ingenious machine. The motion of the cars..is both round and round the undulating track, and also a spinning one on their own axis.
1961 F. C. Roope Come to Fair iii. 71 The Waltzer is completely safe for everyone except the most foolhardy riders.
1965 Observer 29 Aug. (Colour Suppl.) 10/2 The showmen are setting up their stalls and heavy riding machines: Dodgems, Noah's Arks, Waltzers, Shows, and Hurricane Jets.
1968 D. Braithwaite Fairground Archit. 176 Waltzer, a member of the switchback family having freely-pivoted tub-shaped cars mounted on the undulating platform.
1975 Sunday People 6 July 11/5 As he lurches about on the waltzer or is shoved away in a dodgem car, it's easy to give him a folded bottom note in place of two.
1980 R. Hill Killing Kindness vi. 50 He could be on the dodgems, or the waltzer. He helps around when they're busy.
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