dancy

comparative dancier · comparative more dancy · superlative danciest · superlative most dancy · alternative dancey

1. informalReady to dance.

   I'm feeling a bit dancy today.

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   Gear up for a bit of a walk—five whole minutes to The George on S. George St. We're all loosened up and ready to get a little dancey at this thoroughly festive gay club.

   2018, Julia Bunte-Mein, Let's Go Europe (Let's Go), fifth-eighth edition, Cambridge, M.A.: Let's Go, Inc., →ISBN, page 393

2. informalOf music: suitable for dancing to.

   After a few slow numbers, the band moved on to some more dancy tunes.

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   This was the swingingest, danciest Ellington heard by most in a decade.

   1951, Billboard - May 12, 1951, page 10

   TOLBERT BIGAMY JONES was the danciest cowboy in our part of west Texas.

   1954, Collier's Illustrated Weekly - Volume 133, page 56

   Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre member Darrian Ford and JHDT instructor Winifred Haun teamed up in Long Lunch, the danciest piece on the program.

   1988 July 15, Sarah Kaufman, “Dance & More for $1.98”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016

1. not comparablegovernmentSynonym of dancetté.

   a fess dancy

   Synonyms: dancetté

plural Dancys

1. A surname.