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- [boo g-ee, boo-gee]
- /ˈbʊg i, ˈbu gi/
- /ˈbuː.ɡi/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [boo g-ee, boo-gee]
- /ˈbʊg i, ˈbu gi/
Definitions of boogie word
- verb boogie When you boogie, you dance to fast pop music. 3
- verb boogie to dance to pop music 3
- verb boogie to make love 3
- noun boogie a session of dancing to pop music 3
- intransitive verb boogie to dance to rock music 3
- noun boogie rock music 3
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Origin of boogie
First appearance:
before 1920 One of the 12% newest English words
An Americanism dating back to 1920-25; of uncertain origin
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Boogie
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
boogie popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 73% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
boogie usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for boogie
verb boogie
- sashay — to glide, move, or proceed easily or nonchalantly: She just sashayed in as if she owned the place.
- ramble — to wander around in a leisurely, aimless manner: They rambled through the shops until closing time.
- drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
- wander — to ramble without a definite purpose or objective; roam, rove, or stray: to wander over the earth.
- mosey — to wander or shuffle about leisurely; stroll; saunter (often followed by along, about, etc.).
noun boogie
- disco — discotheque.
- waltz — a ballroom dance, in moderately fast triple meter, in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles, taking one step to each beat.
- rock — rock the boat, Informal. to disrupt the smooth functioning or routine of something: Don't rock the boat by demanding special treatment from management.
- tap — Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol
- skip — to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
Antonyms for boogie
verb boogie
- stay — (of a ship) to change to the other tack.
- run — execution
- walk — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- decelerate — When a vehicle or machine decelerates or when someone in a vehicle decelerates, the speed of the vehicle or machine is reduced.
- slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
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