footwork
/ˈfʊt.wɜːk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.12 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
Uncountable
noun
A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork."
- "The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness."
- "Everton defender Distin then demonstrated neat footwork to evade a succession of challenges inside the area before sending a rising, angled effort narrowly off target."
- "In April, DJ Rashad, a Chicago-based producer and pioneer of the increasingly popular footwork genre, died in a drug-related accident."
- "It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen."
Etymology
Etymology tree English foot Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną Proto-West Germanic *wirkijan Old English wyrċan Middle English worchen English work English footwork From foot + work.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/
- British English: /ˈfʊt.wɜːk/