Twerk has been added to Britain’s Oxford Dictionary as a verb. Oxford Dictionary’s Katherine Connor Martin recently addressed the origin of the word, which has been used in music for years.
“There are many theories about the origin of this word, and since it arose in oral use, we may never know the answer for sure,” Martin said to the Associated Press. “We think the most likely theory is that it is an alteration of work, because that word has a history of being used in similar ways, with dancers being encouraged to ‘work it.’ The ‘t’ could be a result of blending with another word such as twist or twitch.”
Twerk will be added to the dictionary along with selfie, digital detox and Bitocoin.
The definition, according to AP, is to “dance to popular music in a sexually provocative manner involving thrusting hip movements and a low, squatting stance.”
Twerking has been in the news of late for several reasons. This month, Juicy J offered a $50,000 scholarship for the best student who can twerk and Miley Cyrus made headlines after twerking at the MTV Video Music Awards. Juicy J also crowned Cyrus “the best twerker hands down” following the performance, which can be seen below.
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shit is retarded. people been shaking their butts for 50 years its nothing new
It’s new to white people. They love it so much, they made a dictionary word out of it.
bling bling fo shizzle my nizzle. my bizzle twerks to this nizzle
Blk ppl been sayin this shit for over a decade now. It originated in the south. Guess it takes a white girl (miley cyrus, to make it “common english”….whatever -_-
Wait. What? It’s not like they gave credit to Miley Cyrus.
He didnt say credit,he just said it took white girl to malke official a word that has been used by black folk for decades. Im happy about it though,black folks shouldnt take pride in the word like its a good thing, twerking is trash! Let it stay associated with Miley forever.
Not the point of giving credit to Miley, but how they wish to connect with it just because of Miley and we’ve been using it for years. Pure comedy how they say we talk “ebonics” and are uneducated but take words from our music/slang and put it in dictionaries like they made it.
Cosign “they jacking our slang……again…….”
yeah but you missed the main point. it was a black word but now its bigger than that. they been doin that for years, but thats cause we have terms for shit they can’t conceive lol
… tru tru anon1
yes people been shaking that ass forever but the word Twerk started in New Orleans
that bitch look like a ra-tard with her tounge hangin out her head like that
YOU NEED AN ASS TO TWERK!
Shit ask The Ying Yang Twins. haha I I I
Checkout thegrandreport, they got some good hip hop videos on there
I still laugh when they say bling. Laugh even harder watching commercials with pure nerds trying to head nod, pop shoulders, fist bump, “we bare-footin'” all off beat. They want to be us so bad.
Except for the police profiling, bad credit, out of wedlock babies, bad neighborhoods, fighting and overemotional acting part. So mmmmmm nah, I’m sure they good trying to be like us.
police profiling-we working on that
bad credit-whites got that too
out of wedlock babies-whites got that too
bad neighborhoods-whites got that too
fighting-whites do that too
overemotional-whites do that, ever see them scream at those town hall meetings?
You’re gonna have to do better than that.
DOING THE GUCCI Added To Britain’s Oxford Dictionary!
Doing the Gucci means: shoot some niggas up, let everybody know they cant fuck with you.
You’re just as stupid as Gucci.
stupider
Fuck Gucci!! WAKA WAKA BRICK SQUADDDDDDDDDD Monopoly
Whistle while u twerk
DEAR WHITE FOLKS,
I UNDERSTAND YOUR FASCINATION WITH “TWERKIN” BUT THAT SHIT AINT NEW. ITS ACTUALLY DEAD NOW THANKS TO THE WHITE COMMUNITY
THANK YOU
ANGRY BLACK GUY
They can have twerking you are worried about the wrong things, your outrage is bullshit. They trying to take voting from you and you mad about twerking? Niggas nowaday I swear.
You know what he’s saying, like bling. They used to call it gaudy but once that term came through, they took it and now it’s hip to use bling, makes them sound cool. When the last time you heard a brother say bling? How many times you hear a brother say iced out or frozen?
And, it’s just like voting, once brothers make it happen and it pops, they want to jump in and take it for their own. Think about that one.
Robin Thicke looks like an idiot.
“but how they wish to connect with it just because of Miley and we’ve been using it for years”
You aren’t famous, dipshit. Of course it will get more mainstream exposure now. That’s always how it works. Nobody cares or follows whose been saying it in the ghetto.
Well………….Miley did! Cared enough to practice and perform it too! LOL what an ASSHOLE you are!
LMAO.. if nobody cared what happened in the ghetto you’d have no hip hop or pop culture at all. Most of the styles that mainstream (white)culture originates from the ghetto (Black)
And there you have it folks
Quote-Man types
Quote-Man gets his comment tore to shreds
Be wary Anon, Quote-Man is going to want to fight you now because he’s the one who put his own foot in his mouth.
White people killed hip hop.
Black people killed Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta….
White people killed the whole world (especially US humans).
No. Ignorant studio thugs with no talent for making albums killed hip hop.
-auto industry killed Detroit
-you obviously don’t know that is just one part of Chicago
-nothing wrong with Atlanta
-all that gang violence & not one major company has left LA
-all those Blacks & so-called terrorists in NYC and Manhattan is still open 24/7
-manufacturing killed Gary, Indiana
you may want to start over again
you’re gonna need an updated klan pamphlet sir
White people can have twerking, they can’t take the Jamaican wine ever.
already did its called wrestling
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no they havent moron, their album came out on October 9, 2012 and Kendrick album came out October 22, 2012
“Haan” Added To Britain’s Oxford Dictionary
Haan = Nigga I aint worried about nothing
YOU A REAL ASS NIGGA, SHABAZZ!!
Bahahaha
We made a difference in the world! Nas said it best, “My generation will make a change” WAY TO GO EVERYONE!! We made world peace happen! Twerkin 4 Eva!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCGNTO0qaVc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbhiTDooqz8
see what happen when white ppl love what ghetto ppl do shit blow up for real mtv boot to 10.1 million ppl watching easy. when it just molly going from disney to twerking but body really need to so show how to do that foreal or she need some black iron in her then she can really do the dam thing allah bless her tho