dancy

From dance + -y.

• Rhymes: -ænsi

dancy (comparative dancier or more dancy, superlative danciest or most dancy)

1. (informal) Ready to dance.

   I'm feeling a bit dancy today.

   • 2018, Julia Bunte-Mein, Let's Go Europe (Let's Go), fifth-eighth edition, Cambridge, M.A.: Let's Go, Inc., →ISBN, page 393:

     Gear up for a bit of a walk—five whole minutes to The George on S. George St. We're all loosened up and ready to get a little dancey at this thoroughly festive gay club.

2. (informal) Of music: suitable for dancing to.

   After a few slow numbers, the band moved on to some more dancy tunes.

   • 1951, Billboard - May 12, 1951‎^[1], page 10:

     This was the swingingest, danciest Ellington heard by most in a decade.

   • 1954, Collier's Illustrated Weekly - Volume 133‎^[2], page 56:

     TOLBERT BIGAMY JONES was the danciest cowboy in our part of west Texas.

   • 1988 July 15, Sarah Kaufman, “Dance & More for $1.98”, in Chicago Reader‎^[3], archived from the original on 6 March 2016:

     Joseph Holmes Dance Theatre member Darrian Ford and JHDT instructor Winifred Haun teamed up in Long Lunch, the danciest piece on the program.

From French danché (or an older form thereof). Compare dancetté.

dancy (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Synonym of dancetté.

   a fess dancy

• “dancey, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• Candy, candy