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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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Jigornaught
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jig or not
Sentence: Mo thought he was one suave dancer. He thought he could dance to any kind of music. Sadly none of his partners did. He was thought of as a jigornaught. Someone who goes through dance partners like arsewipe. Besides his poor floormanship, he also was decidedly a migratory flocking fool.He put the rum in rhumba, the tan in tango, the pass in paso doble, the the swine in swing and the diss in disco! He was the belly in belly dancing, the square in square dancing and the con in the conga! Because he honked so much at dancing properly, his showmanship was fowl and when people took a gander at his awkward moves, they called him Mohatno Gander,Lord of the Glance!
Etymology: jig (dance a quick dance with leaping and kicking motions)& or (else)& juggernaut (a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way & naught (complete failure )
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COMMENTS:
Very clever - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-30: 06:48:00
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Honkstrot
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: honks trot
Sentence: When Xander Gander entered the local dance contest, Dancing With The Scars, he lived up to his reputation as the worst dancer in town. Jangled tangos, sad sambas, cheesy cha cha chas, jittery jitterbugs, wacko waltzes and dismal discos were all part of his dance card. What should have been a fabulous foxtrot turned into a horrible honkstrot. The judges cried fowl. Xander had to fly south to escape the dishonor he had brought on the dance academy, Poultry in Motion.
Etymology: Honks (sound a goose makes) & Trot (a ballroom dance in quadruple time; combines short and long and fast and slow steps fixed sequences)
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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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)
Boogiewookiee
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: boŏgē woŏkē
Sentence: Tremor's girlfriend is sorry she ever suggested that he take dance lessons. His new style can be best described as boogiewookiee. He now loves to get his hairy, oversized body out on the dance floor and gyrate like a bowl of Jello during an earthquake. The last time they went to a dance club, somebody called 911 thinking that his spastic twitchings were caused by an epileptic seisure.
Etymology: boogie-woogie (a dance to fast pop or rock music) + Wookiee (a hairy alien species in Star Wars)
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COMMENTS:
super - Jabberwocky, 2009-07-10: 14:01:00
Out of this world! - Nosila, 2009-07-11: 01:44:00
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Benes
Created by: robcrow
Pronunciation: be / nes
Sentence: After thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of dance lessons, Jimmy finally surrendered to the fact he was a benes, and would never be able to dance in public without making a complete fool of himself.
Etymology: Benes - from the character Elaine Benes in the popular 1990's sitcom Seinfeld. Elaine was a terrible dancer even though she thought she was fantastic. Her dancing represented a goose or some sort of deformed or retarded animal movement. To see a clip visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xi4O1yi6b0
Appallroomdancer
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: ap/all/rume/dan/sur
Sentence: Jose was a famous appallroomdancer. People shrank back in horror when he was on the floor.
Etymology: appall (fill with horror) + ball room dancer
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COMMENTS:
Been there, done that. - Mustang, 2008-05-29: 18:17:00
Good one, bookowl...no doubt he danced at the Appallo Theatre, too! - Nosila, 2008-05-30: 01:10:00
Nice one. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-30: 06:45:00
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Messodoble
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Mess-oh-doh-blay
Sentence: Despite three and a half years ballroom dance lessons, Toby still resembled an emu with two left feet. His long suffering dance instructor had come to the conclusion that he was just a messodoble and there really was no hope.
Etymology: Mess, a state of confusion or difficuly + Pasodoble, a fast-paced ballroom dance based on a Latin American marching style. Origin, Spanish 'double step'. = Messodoble.
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2008-05-29: 11:52:00
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Hokeyjokey
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: hōkējōkē
Sentence: Harry is a born dancer. This is not to say he is any good at it, just that he has enthusiasm for it. His favorite form is the hokeyjokey. ”You put your right foot in. You put your right foot out. You put your right foot in while twitching all about”. More than once some well-meaning club goer has shoved a spoon in his mouth thinking he was experiencing a seizure.
Etymology: A play on hokey-pokey (a circle dance with a synchronized shaking of the limbs in turn) + joke (a person or thing that is ridiculously inadequate)
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.