maxixe

[prettygoodword]

maxixe (mak-SEEKS or mah-SHEE-shi) - n., a Brazilian ballroom dance in a rapid duple measure with a syncopated rhythm, sometimes called the Brazilian tango.


The second pronunciation is close to the original Brazilian Portuguese. The dance was developed and named in the early 1910s, becoming popular by 1914. As for the original of the name, I'll quote the Random House dictionary: "Brazilian Portugeuse: lit., West Indian gherkin (allegedly a name given to a Carnival figure, from which the dance took its name), said to be < Kimbundu", that last being an Angolan language.

ETA: Okay, now this is freaky. But note the dates!

---L.

Comments

[calenorn.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that one's in the Scrabble dictionary. You'd have to use a blank for the second "X," but it would give you two chances to hit a double letter space.

[janni.livejournal.com]

This was my very first thought, too!

Also, can you add an "s" to the end for a change at (if placed well) that 50 point bonus? :-)

[calenorn.livejournal.com]

That would rock! While we're at it lets drape those seven tiles across two triple word scores, shall we? I wonder how many points that would garner.

[janni.livejournal.com]

Alas, with seven tiles forming the complete word (adding the "s" to the end of an existing word?), I think we could only get one triple.

Still, if the "x" is well placed, it should be enough to make the other players hate us anyway. :-)

(And hey, I checked in lexulous on fb, which uses the Scrabble dictionary, and it's there! :-))

[calenorn.livejournal.com]

I guess you'd need an eight-letter word to empty the tray and still connect to a word already on the board, so no 50-point bonus. Eight letters are also needed to span two triple words, so no go there either.

Oh well, I shouldn't get so greedy! This is why I play against the computer. I don't feel guilty about smacking it with words like "maxixe."