twerk

名词 n. 动词 v.
/twɜːk/|[tw̥ɜːk]    /twɜɹk/|[tʰw̥ɝk]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”).
    — It was the twerk that bounced around the world in less than a day. Sound bites from reporters said, “Miley Cyrus’s JAW-DROPPING TWERK-a-thon,” the “twerk-tacular,” “twerk-and-tongue work,” in the “twerk seen ’round the world!”
  2. A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp. US,dated,slang
    — "'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'"
  3. An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.
    — Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk.
  4. A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk. dated
    — "Not so the Freycineti, who looked me over critically, elevated his head crest, and giving his tail an odd little twerk, proceeded to hop deliberately up the limb like a sap-sucker..."
动词 v.
  1. To dance in a sexually-provocative way using hip thrusts in a low squatting stance while shaking the buttocks; to take part in twerking.
    — Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking.
  2. To twitch or jerk. dated
    — […] in the language of the unsophisticated Port Melbourne suburbanite a bed was still something primarily intended for love-making – all the eyebrow-raising and moustache-twerking in Jo'burg couldn't alter that.

词形变化

twerks plural twerks present,singular,third-person twerking participle,present twerked participle,past twerked past twerks plural twerks plural

词源

词源 1
Blend of twitch + jerk. The "sexually-provocative dance" sense was particularly popularized since c. 2000 by hip-hop from the United States of America, and again in 2013 by singer Miley Cyrus.
词源 2
Blend of twerp + jerk, found primarily in the 1930s-era works of Walter Dumaux Edmonds.
词源 3
Onomatopoeic, possibly coined by Roger Tory Peterson.
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