boogie-woogie
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Reduplication of boogie (“party”), of unknown origin.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
boogie-woogie (countable and uncountable, plural boogie-woogies)
- (music) A style of blues piano music.
- (dance) A style of swing dance.
- 1953, Ahmet Ertegun (lyrics and music), “Mess Around”, performed by Ray Charles:
- Ah, everybody was juiced, you can bet your soul / They did the boogie-woogie with a sturdy roll
Translations[edit]
music genre
|
Further reading[edit]
- boogie-woogie on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “boogie”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “boogie”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Categories:
- English reduplications
- English terms with unknown etymologies
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ʊɡi
- Rhymes:English/ʊɡi/4 syllables
- Rhymes:English/uːɡi
- Rhymes:English/uːɡi/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English multiword terms
- en:Musical genres
- en:Dance
- English terms with quotations