Meaning of dingolay | Babel Free

Definitions

To perform a kind of lively dance with hand movements.

Caribbean, intransitive

Examples

“Believe me, friends, if I were King / I'd marry any woman and give her a ring, / I wouldn't give a damn what the people say / So long as she can wash, cook, and dingolay. [Commenting on the abdication of Edward VIII.]”

“Hands clapped, feet tapped, bodies dingolayed.”

“"Madam, we have a way to say when somebody can walk well, we say they dingolay well." Pamela laughed. "You mean that Don … can dingolay well," Lalaja laughed.”

“All he did was duck, and there he was, in Brazil, serenading in the moonlight, and round the campfire some women dancing samba and the music hot like fire. And everybody dingolaying. And same time somebody calling him, "Come, come. Trinidad on fire."”

“Inez come leh we jam for Crop Over Festival, come leh we dingolay”

“The crowd was wild as she "dingolayed" to get the attention of the male lead singer.”

“It is this creature [the human being], peculiarly constituted and uniquely called, that God dingolays and improvises with, in order to draw the created order toward its liberating telos. Human dingolaying in the image of God, participating in the divine melody, is a cultural task; it is a task for theologians and laypersons from every cultural context, [...]”

“Lichorich put on a performance that antagonised the crowd, who shouted profanities as he constantly dingolayed around the ring in a bid to avoid confrontation with Ralph.”

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