undancing

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ dancing

Adjective[edit]

undancing (not comparable)

  1. Not dancing.
    • January 7, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
      We had a little ball the other night at Mrs. Boothby's, and by dancing, did not perceive an earthquake, which frightened all the undancing part of the town.
    • 1885, William Dean Howells, Indian Summer:
      The undancing husband of the dancing wife was boring himself in a corner []