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undancing en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + dancing.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not dancing.
    • January 7, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann We had a little ball the other night at Mrs. Boothby's, and by dancing, did not perceive an earthquake, which frightened all the undancing part of the town.
    • The undancing husband of the dancing wife was boring himself in a corner […] 1885, William Dean Howells, Indian Summer: