Crossword clues for watusi
watusi
- Twist-era dance
- It came after the twist
- Frug's relative
- Fad dance of the 1960s
- Dance similar to the Twist
- Dance related to the twist
- Dance named for an African people
- Dance mentioned in the Beatles' "Revolution 9"
- Dance craze mentioned in the Beatles' "Revolution 9"
- African-inspired dance
- 1962 dance craze
- 1960s novelty dance based on a song by the Orlons
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bantu \Ban"tu\, prop. n. A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, itself a combination of this prefix with the syllable -ntu, a person; or as in Watusi.
2. the family of languages spoken by the Bantu people (definition 1).
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
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.
Wikipedia
Watusi or Watusis may refer to one of the following:
- Tutsi, an African ethnic group
- The Watusi, a solo dance from the early 1960s
- Watusi (album), 1994 studio album by The Wedding Present
- Ankole-Watusi (cattle), a cattle breed
- Watusi (film), a 1959 film with George Montgomery and Taina Elg
- Watusi (firework), a type of firecracker
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, Taina Elg, David Farrar and Rex Ingram.
The film is a sequel to the MGM 1950 King Solomon's Mines starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger, and in fact, uses some footage from the earlier film.
Watusi was the fourth studio album released by The Wedding Present.
It was released in 1994 in the U.K on Island Records.
Watusi is to be re-issued by Edsel Records in 2014 and The Wedding Present will play the album in its entirety during their autumn 2014 UK tour.
A watusi is a type of firecracker that is popular in the Philippines.
Its ingredients are yellow phosphorus, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, and trinitrotoluene. The ingredients in the firework are highly toxic, and ingestion can lead to painful death. In particular, children are killed by watusi fireworks after sucking on them or mistaking them for sweets. The yellow phosphorus, the most dangerous component of the watusi, may explode and rip apart the esophagus when ingested. The Philippine Department of Health is attempting to have the sale of watusi fireworks to children banned to prevent these deaths.
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.