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The Oxford English Dictionary has included the verb to "twerk" in its June additions

The dance motion known as "twerking" has recently been associated with Miley Cyrus

But the dictionary puts its offset reference to the word's usage equally a verb to a 1848 poem

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Motility over Miley Cyrus. It appears strait-laced Victorian ancestors were "twerking" nearly 150 years earlier the nativity of the "Wrecking Brawl" vocalist, who caused a storm with her raunchy functioning at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.

"Twerk" has this month been added to the Oxford English Lexicon, setting the give-and-take in academic rock. The first listed reference to its employ happened in 1848, while information technology was referred to every bit a noun even before.

"The apply of twerk to depict a type of dancing which emphasizes the performer's posterior originated in the early on 1990s in the New Orleans 'bounce' music scene, but the word itself seems to have its origins more than 170 years before," writes the OED's Katherine Connor Martin in an explanatory note.

"Information technology was in use in English as a substantive by 1820 (originally spelled 'twirk'), referring to 'a twisting or jerking move; a twitch': 'Really the Germans exercise allow themselves such twists & twirks of the pen, that it would puzzle any one' (Charles Clairmont, Letter, 26 Feb. 1820)," she says.

Twerk was added to the OED's online version in 2013 as role of a quarterly update of "current English," but while that edition changes, the Oxford English Dictionary is an historical record – meaning the word volition never be removed.

The dictionary'southward first definition of the verb to twerk, is: "To move (something) with a twitching, twisting, or jerking movement."

It refers to twerking'southward apply – then spelled with an "i" – in an 1848 verse form by Richard Kelsey on the defense force of Wessex by Alfred the Great. Kelsey wrote: "In vain he twirks his almost-han' spur, In vain his blood-red-challers threaten war An' fierce eyne bleeze …"

"Harper'due south Monthly Mag" unwittingly mashed up some elements of Cyrus' booty-popping dance with her country and western alter-ego "Hannah Montana" in 1932 when it published the line: "A leaf blew across the barnyard and a puff-ball of a kitten rushed subsequently it, tail twirking."

Even more presciently, the dictionary refers to the 1952 Washington Mail service announcement that "Washington cliff-dwellers are twittering, twerking, and titillating." (The OED notes this figurative apply may have been referring to sound rather than motility: we can only assume that any similarity to real social media networks dead or living is purely coincidental.)

The secondary pregnant of twerking, the OED says, is: "To dance to popular music in a sexually provocative way, using thrusting movements of the bottom and hips while in a depression, squatting stance."

Now that sounds more like the moves thrust into the limelight by Cyrus.

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However, the dictionary'south first attribution to the secondary pregnant name checks a song by D.J Jubilee in 1993: "Do the Jubilee, all… Shake, baby, shake, baby, shake, shake, shake… Twerk, baby, twerk, baby, twerk, twerk, twerk… Twerk it, all … Take your clothes off."

Its terminal reference is an August 2013 article on twerking – which points to the Live Crew video for the song "Pop That Pussy," featuring women twerking in a pool. No explicit reference to Miley then – simply rather a lot of explicit content for such a weighty tome.

And then, if making information technology to the venerable Oxford English language Dictionary breaks down that final twerking bulwark for yous, join more than 30 meg others and make apply of the instructions on the YouTube video beneath. Even Helen Mirren has rocked out this move.

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Source: https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/europe/twerk-dictionary-miley/index.html

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