twinkletoes

twinkletoes
   This would be addressed to someone who shows skill at dancing. In the 1920s there was a dance step known as the twinkle, but it did not survive. It is difficult to know whether the dance step was named before the expression ‘twinkletoes’ came into being, or vice versa. A girl at her first dance is addressed as ‘Mademoiselle Twinkletoes’ in Her First Ball, by Katherine Mansfield, a story which was published in 1922.

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