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Fad dance of the 1960s
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watusi
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Watusi is a 1959 MGM adventure film directed by Kurt Neumann and produced by Al Zimbalist and Donald Zimbalist. The screenplay was by James Clavell loosely based on the novel King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard . The film stars George Montgomery , ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
racial group in Rwanda and Burundi (also called Tutsi ), 1899. As the name of a popular dance, attested from 1964.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A popular dance of the 1960s, fueled by the success of the song "Wah-Watusi" by The Orlons in 1962. Secondary in popularity to dances such as the Twist. vb. (context intransitive English) To dance the watusi.
Usage examples of watusi.
It was then that the Bahutu of Ruanda rebelled, massacring thousands of Watusi, forcing the Watusi mwami, or king, and more than one hundred thousand of his followers south to Urundi.
As Marlowe walked down the wide sweep of stairs that led from the nightclub entrance to the heart of the bright darkness, the dance floor was dominated by a twenty-meter-tall image of Ann-Margret doing what looked like the Watusi to a dyged-up Buddy Holly song played close to the pain threshold.
Hindu and Tamil, Orange Irish and Green Irish, Watusi and Hutueverywhere.
Tall and slender as only a descendant of the Watusi could be, she owned a brace of doctorates in addition to her stars.
Naturally, there was concern that with the influx of Watusi, the same sort of bloody uprising would befall Urundi.
They could never get used to the Watusi habit of drinking animal blood, but the high jumps and acrobatic dancing of the tall, limber Africans never ceased to thrill them.
In 1972, when the Bahutus revolted against the Watusi, and one friend took up arms against the other, Catherine was appalled.