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slowfox

noun

Etymology

From slow + foxtrot.

  1. derived from *dreh₂-✻ — “to run, escape”
  2. derived from *trudōną✻
  3. derived from *trottōn✻
  4. derived from *trottō, *trotō✻ — “to go”
  5. derived from trotter
  6. inherited from trotten
  7. compounded as foxtrot — “fox + trot”
  8. formed as slowfox — “slow + foxtrot”

Definitions

  1. A slow foxtrot.

    • When the music changed to a slowfox, she threw me a strange glance, then went cheek to cheek, whispering into the guy’s ear.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for slowfox. 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