footwork.
Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
Meaning & usage
Any movement of the feet, especially intricate or complex movement, as in sports or dancing.
The dancer impressed the crowd with his fancy footwork.
The horses impressed the riders with their unerring footwork, and the mountain goats simply astounded everyone with their surefootedness.
A subgenre of juke/ghetto house and style of street dance that originated in Chicago in the early 1990s.
Finesse.
It took some fancy footwork to make it all happen.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English foot Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *wr̥ǵyéti Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną Proto-West Germanic *wurkijan Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom Proto-Germanic *werką Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *wirkijaną Proto-West Germanic *wirkijan Old English wyrċan Middle English worchen English work English footwork From foot + work.
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