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twerked | twerker |

As a verb twerked

is (twerk).

As a noun twerker is

a person who twerks.

twerked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (twerk)

    • twerk

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang, dated, US) A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.
  • *1930 , , The Big Barn , page 207:
  • *:"'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'"
  • *1932 , Forum and Century vol. 87 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=fz75RqyPOoWcpgKW19m0Dw]:
  • *:"But even then the poor twerk' s whiskers and little eyes looked kind of wistful as if the clothes had got him and was taking him somewhere..."
  • *2003 , Bernard Kamoroff, Small Time Operator [http://books.google.com/books?id=9qlizjnOrVcC], ISBN 0917510186, page 19,
  • *:You don't need those twerks who walk in off the street.
    • Usage notes
    Found primarily in the 1930s-era works of .

    Etymology 2

    (Twerking) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.
  • *1898 , William Brigham, "Director's Report" in Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Museum vol. 1 no. 1, page 42:
  • *:"Not so the Freycineti, who looked me over critically, elevated his head crest, and giving his tail an odd little twerk , proceeded to hop deliberately up the limb like a sap-sucker..."
  • *1920 , Lilian C. McNamara Garis, The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest: Or, The Wig Wag Rescue [http://books.google.com/books?id=ulYCAAAAYAAJ], page 86,
  • *:"I hardly realize it yet that you are my really truly coz," and she gave the girl's long, brown braids a familiar twerk .
  • *1950 , Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor [http://books.google.com/books?id=ySdBAAAAIAAJ], page 86,
  • *:With a quick twerk at her shift, the girl lifted it to her rounded belly, and squatted nakedly on his lap.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To twitch or jerk.
  • *1985 , Criena Rohan, Down by the Docks [http://books.google.com/books?id=ausNAAAAIAAJ], page 151,
  • *: in the language of the unsophisticated Port Melbourne suburbanite a bed was still something primarily intended for love-making – all the eyebrow-raising and moustache-twerking in Jo'burg couldn't alter that.
  • *2005 , Florence Hall Abssi, The Call [http://books.google.com/books?id=OyAkYG9lwD4C], page 613:
  • *:"He twerked an eyebrow at his wife."
  • To move the body in a sexually suggestive twisting or gyrating fashion.
  • *2005 , Euftis Emery, Off the Chain [http://books.google.com/books?id=Ib1vEpY4TpwC], ISBN 1411630475, page 73,
    • Gaea then stood up over me and turned so that her butt was facing me. She then had the nerve to start twerking .
  • *2006 , Lawrence Christopher, Ghettoway Weekend [http://books.google.com/books?id=gOPfQEdpxkwC], ISBN 0971227845, page 96,
  • *:"Shortie'' really knows how to ''twerk it don't she?" Marcus boasted, while still recording.
  • * 2006 , :
    • Let me see what ya twerkin with
  • To dance in a sexually suggestive manner, often involving rapid movement.
  • *2013', Nichole Smith, ABC News, ''High School Students Suspended for '''''Twerking'' [http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/high-school-students-suspended-for-twerking/]
    • Twerking, as it is known in the hip-hop community, is a hard-hitting, rump-shaking dance move that celebrities including Beyonce and Miley Cyrus have been known to bust out, but it has also gotten a group of San Diego high school students suspended.
    Usage notes
    In “sexually suggestive movements, especially dance”, particularly popularized since c. 2000 by US hip-hop.
    Derived terms
    * twerker

    Etymology 3

    Onomatopoeia, possibly coined by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An abrupt call, such as made by the California Quail.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1961, author=Roger Tory Peterson, title=A Field Guide to Western Birds citation
    • passage=Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk .}}

    twerker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who twerks.
  • * 2007 , Mike Bushnell, " Superman that ... album", The Maneater (University of Missouri), 5 October 2007:
    • And some of the songs are good at least for a few laughs, including "Booty Meat," in which Soulja Boy demands all the boppers, twerkers and the like "shake that booty meat," over and over.
  • * 2013 , John Harlow, " Nowhere to hide in age of social media", The Australian , 1 September 2013:
    • It will bring her back into the Disney fold as an adult and perhaps enable her to find a healthy balance between her warring halves - the publicity-seeking twerker and, somewhere still inside, the charming Smiley Miley Cyrus.
  • * 2013 , Daniel Miller, " Girl sets herself on fire after roommate opens door while she was twerking against it doing a headstand", Daily Mail , 6 September 2013:
    • It may be the hot dance craze of the moment, but one hapless young twerker appears to take things a little too far when she literally sets herself on fire in the middle of a raunchy routine.