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DEFINITION: n. A person who, despite professional lessons and incessant practice, cannot dance without looking like a ruptured goose. v. To dance in an awkward or clumsy manner.
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Poultrysamba
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: pol tree sam ba
Sentence: At Gerda and Josef Gobble's wedding, Vi was a bridesmaid and was forced to dance with the best man, the obnoxious Tom, who was drunk on Grey Goose Vodka. She was mortified when he dragged her up to do the Chicken Dance and everyone in the room stopped what they were doing to take a gander at his poultrysamba style of twerpsichore. He had no trouble getting "down" but he kept honking for Vi to get him back up. That's when he start calling her his little Viagra. When the seemingly endless dance mercifully was over, Tom goosed Vi and she in turn clipped his "wings". Of course, this was caught on video and is now all over the Web!
Etymology: Poultry (Fowl) & Samba (Brazilian dance) & WordPlay on paltrey sum (a small amount)
Bleakdance
Created by: SethelMerman
Pronunciation: bleek-dance
Sentence: Steven auditioned for So You Think You Can Dance with his best Bleakdance. "They don't know what they're talking about rejecting me. Those poppers and lockers have nothing on my moves," he said to the person in 23D on his flight back to Indianna.
Etymology: Bleak, without hope or a future + Break dance, style of dancing.
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COMMENTS:
A bleakdance turned into a beakdance for this silly goose...good word! - Nosila, 2009-07-10: 17:50:00
I agree! - splendiction, 2009-07-10: 23:46:00
P.S. Love your name! You\'re the tops! - Nosila, 2009-07-11: 01:46:00
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Clodastaire
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: KLOD-uh-stair
Sentence: Theirs was a marriage, thought Roxie, to last a lifetime. But a few seconds after they had started to dance the bridal waltz, she was beginning to have second thoughts. Despite months of professional lessons and hours of practice every evening, Bob danced like a robot in armour. It was for her a pyrrhic victory: she had won her man, but almost lost her feet in the process. He was certainly no Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly - possibly a Ned Kelly; in fact, she concluded, very quickly, that he was a clodastaire.
Etymology: CLOD & ASTAIRE a stupid and awkward person who, despite plenty of professional help and practice,and hopes one day to dance like Fred Astaire, contines to dance like a three legged giraffe. CLODHOPPERS:a clumsy oaf, large and clumsy feet.
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COMMENTS:
Top hat old boy, it's swing time! Shall we dance? - Rutilus, 2008-05-29: 15:12:00
great word and funny sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-29: 10:19:00
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Rhumbad
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rum bad
Sentence: When he was going out on the dance floor, all his potential partners used to disappear. That was because he rhumbad so terribly. He was all jerky movements and poor footwork. He also sambad, mambad and his foxtrot was a moxtrot. He tried the paso dope-le and his jive was well, jive. He later went on to become a judge oin Dancing with the Stars.
Etymology: Rhumba (cuban dance of love) & Bad (not good;below average standards)
Waddlewaltz
Created by: Filthy
Pronunciation: \'wä-dəl-ˈwȯl(t)s
Sentence: Elaine is such a waddlewaltz that the band launched into "the chicken dance" when she got to the wedding reception.
Etymology: WADDLE (to move forward while swaying from side to side; to move like a fowl) + WALTZ (a ballroom dance in 3⁄4 time with strong accent on the first beat and a basic pattern of step-step-close). Unsteady, flailing performers of highly choreographed, dance routines at the Indiana State Fair were privately termed waddlewaltzes by the unforgiving judges. The word circulated in the world of dance, making an appearance on the national stage when a guest judge used the term to describe a contestant on the reality TV program "So you think you can dance".
Bossanono
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: bossa noh noh
Sentence: he was a total bossanono, his foxtrot was more like a cowslip and his tango went
Etymology: bossanova no no
Coordinainted
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: co-ORD-in-aynt-ed
Sentence: Finsterwald was totally coordinainted, so much so that he gave new meaning to 'two left feet'...in fact at times he appeared to have THREE left feet and much to his consternation, he was absolutely unable to perform the footwork to any of the popular dances of the day.
Etymology: Blend of 'coordinated' (adept - skillful) and 'ain't' (alternative to 'isn't')
Twoleftfeetwoodmac
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: too/left/feet/wood/mac
Sentence: Twoleftfeetwoodmac was a terror on the dance floor.
Etymology: two left feet + wood + fleetwood mac
Pasdedoh
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pah de dough
Sentence: Kenny was now firmly entrenched as a wallflower once he had been identified as a pasdedoh. His reputation for j j j jivegawking, sambungling, disco-verhegoesagain and tangoling had spread even to the lowliest of barn dances in the country surrounding his home town.
Etymology: pas de deux (dance for two esp. in ballet) + doh (exclamation of dismay)
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COMMENTS:
didn't get it until I read the pronunciation - very funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-29: 10:25:00
Yes a little cryptic on first look. But someone voted for it. - petaj, 2008-05-30: 03:27:00
Entertaining. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-30: 06:47:00
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Gawkytrot
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: gaw/kee/trot
Sentence: Jenny hates going to weddings with Joe because he always wants to dance, but he can only gawkytrot his way around the dance floor.
Etymology: GAWKYTROT - from GAWKY (awkward; ungainly; clumsy) + FOXTROT (a dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps in fixed sequences)
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COMMENTS:
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-29: 10:23:00
Looks good to me - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-30: 06:39:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
Mustang - 2008-05-29: 18:13:00
Michael's dancing sounds just like mine. Great word!
Today's definition was suggested by Mustang. Thank you Mustang. ~ James
Whatup with the \\\\\\that appears whenever I type a quote or apostrophe?
Guest artist? New style? Reminds me a bit of Shel Silverstein.