tickey-draai, noun
- Forms:
- Show more Also tiekiedraai, tikiedraai, tikkiedraai.
- Origin:
- AfrikaansShow more Partial translation of Afrikaans tiekiedraai, tiekie see tickey + draai turn, twirl.
1.
a. A fast dance-movement derived from Cape square-dancing, in which couples link hands and spin round on one spot on their toes, leaning away from each other; a dance including this movement. Also attributive, and transferred sense. See also vastrap noun sense 1 a.
1929 J.G. Van Alphen Jan Venter 251An occasional rollicking set of dancers in which couples indulged in the ‘tickey-draai’, i.e. a rapid top-like spinning in one spot.
1987 C.L. Kgaphola in Staffrider Vol.6 No.4, 48Leave your Molotov cocktail at home and join in the tikkie draai.
b. figurative. Interaction; fast movement; spinning. Also attributive.
1989 Sunday Times 29 Oct. 28The Broederbond’s political tiekiedraai act to improve its image, showing a bit of ankle here and there.
2. Music. The fast, rhythmical music played to accompany this dance; draai sense 2. Also attributive.
1949 E. Hellmann Handbk on Race Rel. 620The coloured people at the Cape have for so long reflected the culture of their European progenitors that no indigenous music of theirs now exists, their principal contribution to the art being the instrumental idiom of the ‘tickey-draai’ since they and the Malays, during the epoch of slavery, provided most of the dance music for their European overlords.
1990 Weekend Post 19 May (Leisure) 5A musical diet ranging from bebop and marabi to vastrap and tiekiedraai.
A fast dance-movement derived from Cape square-dancing, in which couples link hands and spin round on one spot on their toes, leaning away from each other; a dance including this movement. Also attributive, and transferred sense.
Interaction; fast movement; spinning. Also attributive.
The fast, rhythmical music played to accompany this dance; draai sense 2. Also attributive.
- Derivatives:
- Hence tickey-draai intransitive verb, to dance the tickey-draai; tickey-draaing verbal noun, spinning and whirling.1966 I. Vaughan These Were my Yesterdays 112Swinging himself and his partner wildly around in his own idea of the Charleston with much ‘tickey-draaing’!1994 Weekly Mail & Guardian 13 May 9One black woman..started twirling around wildly...‘Where did you learn to tiekiedraai so good?’ a bystander asked. ‘In my boerestaat!’ she laughed back.
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