different between beguine vs foxtrot

English

Etymology

From American French béguine, from French béguin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /be???i?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b?.??i?n/

Noun

beguine (plural beguines)

1. A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
   • 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine,

     When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.

   • 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,

     It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:

   • 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174,

     He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles. […] ?

Translations

Finnish

Noun

beguine

1. beguine (dance and music)

Declension

English

Etymology

fox +? trot

Noun

foxtrot (plural foxtrots)

1. A ballroom dance with a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm.
2. A pace with short steps, as in changing from trotting to walking.
3. Foxtrot, the letter F in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Translations

Verb

foxtrot (third-person singular simple present foxtrots, present participle foxtrotting, simple past and past participle foxtrotted)

1. To dance the foxtrot.

See also

• turkey trot

Czech

Noun

foxtrot m

1. foxtrot (dance)

Further reading

• foxtrot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• foxtrot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Slovak

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?kstr?t/

Noun

foxtrot m (genitive singular foxtrotu, nominative plural foxtroty, genitive plural foxtrotov, declension pattern of dub)

1. (dance) foxtrot

Declension

Synonyms

• fox

Further reading

• foxtrot in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fo?s?t?ot/, [fo??s?t??ot?]

Noun

foxtrot m (plural foxtrots)

1. (dance) foxtrot

Swedish

Alternative forms

• foxtrott (dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from English foxtrot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?kstr?t/

Noun

foxtrot c

1. (dance) foxtrot

Declension

References

• foxtrot in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• foxtrott in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)