frugとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /fɹʌɡ/
• 韻: -ʌɡ

名詞

frug (plural frugs)

1. (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s.
   • 1964 July 15, The Australian, Sydney, page 20, column 3:

     She [...] loves to cook, sew and dance. She's up on all the latest steps like the frug, the hully-gully and the surf.

   • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 52:

     The snake did the frug, the monkey did the shake. The crowd, mostly young couples, tourists and kids, loved it.

   • 1990, T. Coraghessan Boyle, East is East: A Novel, Viking, →ISBN, page 166:

     They were doing a modified frug, a dance Ruth had learned—and abandoned—in high school.

   • 1991, Marcia B. Siegel, Nathaniel Tileston, The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976–1982, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

     In telegraphic succession, the parents two-step, Charleston, lindy, twist, and frug, their dance harmony always splintered apart by their offspring.

動詞

frug (third-person singular simple present frugs, present participle frugging, simple past and past participle frugged)

1. (intransitive) To perform this dance.
   • 1965 August, Mississippi Phil Ochs, “The Newport Fuzz Festival”, in The Realist‎, number 61, retrieved 2022-11-13, page 12:

     Joan Baez's frugging on several occasions gave the festival the added flair of an Arthur Murray Dance Party.

   • 1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 105:

     "Do you like frugging?" "I'm not sure I..." "Oh, come on." Betty danced.

   • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 53:

     A snake charmer merely hypnotizes the creature with his movements. So I began to move the flute, just as Gopal had done. Now I had the cobra frugging.