Waltz
Pronunciation
- IPA: /wÉ”Ëlts/
Origin
German Walzer, from walzen ("to dance"), from Old High German walzan ("to turn"), from Proto-Germanic *walt- ("to turn"), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- ("to turn").
Derived terms
Verb
- (intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).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.
- (informal) To accomplish a task with little effort.
- (intransitive, transitive) To move briskly and unhesitatingly.He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
- 2011, September 28, Tom Rostance, Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos, Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
- (transitive) To move with fanfare.
- 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, :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.