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💃 Energetic dance 🗡️ A stabbing 🗡️ To stab
daggering

daggering

9.9
A sexual dance from Jamaica with fast thrusting hip movements
  • noun
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  • Many Jamaican dancers incorporate daggering into their performances, showcasing its rhythmic thrusting style.

Examples

  • The energetic movements of daggering really got the crowd on their feet during the dance competition.

  • No, what's that you know twerking Daggering is where you get the woman and go like that.

  • At the party, everyone was excited to try out the new dance craze called daggering.

How Energetic

daggering
  • NSFW
9.9
reggaeton
3 4.9

Surface Forms

daggering singular
daggerings plural

Morphology

daggering = dagger (opaque) = dagger + ing

The form is clearly dagger + -ing, but the dancehall sense is a specialized metaphorical extension of 'dagger' meaning to thrust or stab, so the meaning is not readily predictable for learners.

Etymology

Daggering comes from Jamaican dancehall and uses the image of dagger meaning 'a small, sharp knife' to describe quick, forward thrusts; the moves look like short, stabbing actions. So the name helps you remember this is a sexually suggestive, thrusting style of dance.