chicken dance en · NOUN
Meanings
- (qualifier:preceded by definite article) A simple modern dance, performed to a version of Werner Thomas's Bird Song or Birdie Song, in which certain moves mimic the movements of a chicken.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of prairie chicken dance (“traditional Native American dance”).
alt of prairie chicken dance
There is a laughable account of one of these "chicken-dances," as the Americans call them, in the first volume of the late Mr. T. Keast Lord's 'The Naturalist in British Columbia.'
1876, Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page 5072:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| chicken dances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (3)
fi tiputanssi (simple modern dance) · fr danse des canards (simple modern dance) · de Ententanz (simple modern dance)