shimmy

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A dance move involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately.
  2. A dance that was popular in the 1920s.
    — The tango, the Texas Tommy, Walking the Dog, the one step, the fox trot, the shimmy, and all their out-growths, had their origin in the palaces of lust on the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.
  3. An abnormal vibration, especially in the wheels of a vehicle.
  4. A sleeveless chemise. rare
动词 v.
  1. To perform a shimmy (dance movement involving thrusting the shoulders back and forth alternately).
    — She wondered would he think her awful, and try to get fresh if she shimmied. Fellows often did. But he was so cute. And a girl had to something about that, and if she didn't shimmy, she might do something worse.
  2. To climb something (e.g. a pole) gradually (e.g. using alternately one's arms then one's legs).
    — He shimmied up the flagpole.
  3. To vibrate abnormally, as a broken wheel. intransitive
    — They came in among earth-moving machines, a total absence of trees, the usual hieratic geometry, and eventually, shimmying for the sand roads, down in a helix to a sculptured body of water named Lake Inverarity.
  4. To shake the body as if dancing the shimmy. intransitive,rare
  5. To move across a narrow ledge, either by hanging from it or by strafing on it along the wall. intransitive
    — Jump up to the ledge on your right and shimmy around the corner.

词形变化

shimmies plural shimmies present,singular,third-person shimmying participle,present shimmied participle,past shimmied past

词汇关系

衍生词
shimmy shake shimmy-shammy shimmier shimmy on down

词源

词源 1
A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).
词源 2
A back-formation from chemise (mistaken for a plural).
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