sashay

1. 1.

   move sideways

   Synonymssidle

   Broadermove
2. 2.

   to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

   “He struts around like a rooster in a hen house”

   Synonymstittupswaggerruffleprancestrutcock

   Broaderwalk
3. 3.

   perform a chasse step, in ballet

   Synonymschasse

   Broaderdance

Other forms of sashay

plural

sashays·

past tense

sashayed·

present participle

sashaying·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sashay

What does sashay mean?

sashay means "a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sashay?

sashay has 2 syllables: sa-shay. The stress falls on "sa".

What is another word for sashay?

Close synonyms include chasse, excursion, jaunt, outing, junket. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sashay a common word?

sashay is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.