hoe-downとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhoʊdaʊn/

名詞

hoedown (plural hoedowns)

1. A type of American folk or square dance.

   John and Susie went to the square dance and did the hoedown.

   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Guardian‎:

     Soon Marshall is doing an elaborate foot-to-foot jig, and then they're all bounding around. Shoulder dips. Yee-ha faces. It's an impromptu hoedown.

2. The type of music typically played for such a dance
3. A gathering at which such dances take place.

   We have to get to the hoedown before noon, or we'll be late.

派生語

動詞

hoedown (third-person singular simple present hoedowns, present participle hoedowning, simple past and past participle hoedowned)

1. To dance a hoedown dance
   • 2012 November 15, Tom Lamont, The Daily Telegraph‎:

     Having spent the day in the company of this thoughtful, friendly, uncommonly levelheaded band – charmed, completely – a protective part of me sort of wishes they wouldn't hoedown

参考

• breakdown
• hoedown on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Donohew, Henwood, woodhen