Meaning

1 senses

  1. (obsolete)To swirl around dancing a romantic or flamboyant waltz.

Origin

From Franz Lehár's popular 1905 operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe); the romantic

From Franz Lehár's popular 1905 operetta The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe); the romantic centerpiece is a sweeping, hypnotic waltz where the two main characters dance together because they are too stubborn to admit their love out loud.

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Forms

merry-widows, merry-widowing, merry-widowed, merry-widowed
Base formmerry-widow · to merry-widow
3rd person singularmerry-widows
Present participlemerry-widowing
Past simplemerry-widowed
Past participlemerry-widowed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymerry-widow
he, she, itmerry-widows

Past simpleLesson

all personsmerry-widowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave merry-widowed
he, she, ithas merry-widowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill merry-widow

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
merrilymerrimentmerryA1meshC2mesmerizemessB1
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