twirk

Noun (1)

twerk (plural twerks)

1. Synonym of twerking (“a sexually-provocative dance, involving the performer thrusting their hips back from a low squatting stance while shaking their buttocks”).
   • It was the twerk that bounced around the world in less than a day. Sound bites from reporters said, “Miley Cyrus’s JAW-DROPPING TWERK-a-thon,” the “twerk-tacular,” “twerk-and-tongue work,” in the “twerk seen ’round the world!”2016, Jacqueline Warwick, Allison Adrian, editors, Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music, Routledge, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   twerking

2. (dated, original sense) A fitful movement similar to a twitch or jerk.
   • "Not so the Freycineti, who looked me over critically, elevated his head crest, and giving his tail an odd little twerk, proceeded to hop deliberately up the limb like a sap-sucker..."1898, William Brigham, “Director's Report”, in Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Museum, volume 1, number 1, page 42

Noun (2)

twerk (plural twerks)

1. (US, dated, slang) A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.
   • "'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'"1930, Walter Dumaux Edmonds, The Big Barn, page 207

Noun (3)

twerk (plural twerks)

1. An abrupt call, such as that made by the California quail.
   • Note of male on territory, a loud kurr or twerk.1961, Roger Tory Peterson, A Field Guide to Western Birds, page 67

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