Waltz vs Polka - What's the difference?
waltz | polka |
A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
(informal) A simple task.
(transitive) To dance the (with).
(informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.(rfex)
(transitive) To move briskly and unhesitatingly.
* {{quote-news
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To move with fanfare.
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As nouns the difference between waltz and polka
is that waltz is a ballroom dance in 3/4 time while polka is pole (female).As a verb waltz
is (transitive) to dance the (with).waltz
English
(wikipedia waltz)Noun
(es)Derived terms
* Viennese waltzVerb
(es)- They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
- While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
- He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
- You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
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- And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.