Twerking - Talk About Feeling My Age!!!

andy-hughes | 12:21 Mon 09th Sep 2013 | ChatterBank

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Although I am a music and culture writer, I am perfectly willing to accept that there are vast swathes of youth culture that do not apear on my radar, and that i am unlikely to understand.

Hence my confusion at the use of the term 'twerking' - which I happened upon this weekend reading a couple of magazines in a hotel room, and the station waiting lounge at Euston.

I now know what 'twerking is' - but my eyes were really opened when i read this on Google -

"In 2013, twerk was added to the Oxford Dictionary Online. The dictionary said the word had been around for 20 years, but the evidence for it to be included in the dictionary had tipped the scale when U.S. pop star Miley Cyrus gave a controversial and headline-producing twerking dance at the MTV Video Music Awards on August 25, 2013."

The Oxford Dictionary includes words from the influence of a Miley Cirus performance???????????????????????????

I really am getting old!

I'm In Tears As....

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ummmm

I found that funny too...

rockyracoon

Lol, I had to google twerking last week after a reference to it on Ray Donovan

Octavius

I bet you've done a few selfies in your time as well Andy....

jno

I think a lot of people - and that includes me -were unfamiliar with the word until the ludicrously widespread coverage of Ms Cyrus. So if it's suddenly become more widely known and used, I guess that's sufficient to spur the OED into action. (That plus the endless competition between dictionaries to cram in neologisms that will probably vanish again in six weeks.)

It seems to be what used to be called bumping and grinding. I've never really had much call to use either phrase, but you, as a music journalist, will be writing it all the time now, so good luck with that!

boxtops

All I know is that it involves sticking your bum out, and wriggling!

jno

boxy, in extreme cases (eg every 10 feet at the Notting Hill Carnival) the wriggling is done against the crotch of a man standing just behind.

Octavius

I doubt it jno, just like when Tony Blair started wearing Levi 501s and your mother referred to jewellery as bling, such fashion and terminology disappears off the radar quicker than a Helen Flanagan selfie appears on Twitter. To get kids to stop using things, parents start using them = uncool.

jno

Octavius, if you catch your parents twerking you may give them a good slap.

This is not something I intend to try at home. I may even put up a sign saying "No Irish or Twerkers".

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Octavius

I'm sure my parents probably twerked at the village ceilidh in the 70s, mum would have dropped her keys and dad would have bumbled into her backside after a few jars of guinness. Maybe they invented it.

jno

she probably misread it as "fretwork", triggs.

giveup

Still don't know what it is!!! Could someone explain please.