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pee-pee dance

noun

Etymology

From pee-pee (“colloquial, usually childish: urine”) + dance, because the movements ostensibly resemble dance moves.

  1. derived from *dantiāre✻
  2. derived from dancier
  3. inherited from dauncen
  4. compounded as pee-pee dance — “pee-pee + dance”

Definitions

  1. Synonym of potty dance (“voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to…

    Synonym of potty dance (“voluntary or involuntary movements resulting from attempting to avoid urination when one's bladder is full, typically by crossing one's legs, hopping, twitching, or holding one's crotch”).

    • From then on, desperate attempts at humor come from things like Bobby doing "the pee-pee dance" (in a sympathetic trance with someore's full bladder), or diagnosing a cardinal's hemorrhoids, or running around in his underwear in church.
    • The mother waited patiently while the boy played with Lego. She turned the camera on and recorded quiet play and then the transition to motor activity in the legs. Mom asked her son to go to the bathroom when she saw the pee-pee dance.

  2. Synonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner

    Synonym of potty dance (“to move in this manner; to perform the potty dance.”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pee-pee dance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA