maxixe

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English

Two dancers demonstrating the maxixe

Etymology

From Brazilian Portuguese maxixe.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /maˈʃiːʃə/, /makˈsiːks/

Noun

maxixe (plural maxixes)

  1. A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka.
    • 2016 November, Donald Rayfield, “The Monk behind the Myth”, in Literary Review:
      He spent whole days and nights on his knees praying, yet he could have won Strictly Come Dancing with his virtuoso Brazilian tango, the maxixe.
  2. A deep blue variety of beryl.

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

  • Hyphenation: ma‧xi‧xe

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Kimbundu maxixi, plural of rixixi, a type of cucurbit.[1][2]

Noun

maxixe m (plural maxixes)

  1. gherkin

Etymology 2

From the male name Maxixe, which is probably related to Etymology 1 above.

Noun

maxixe m (plural maxixes)

  1. (Brazil) maxixe (Brazilian dance)
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

maxixe

  1. inflection of maxixar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

References

  1. ^ “maxixe”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  2. ^ “maxixe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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