4 letter words
Word Origins
Fairies
Dance
Food
100

A Marine Corps camp, or appropriate footwear for one.

boot

100

It means dancing in Hawaiin

hula

100

Fairies like privacy & respect people who can keep one of these

a secret

100

Its popular calls include "promenade" & "swing your partner"

square dancing

100

Spicy, icy Spanish tomato soup

gazpacho

200

You try to do it to a putt or an enemy boat

sink

200

Because they were taken down in small fast writing, notes of a meeting were called this.

minutes

200

Brownies wear brown but pixies wear this color

green

200

this dance dominated 19th century  ballroom dancing

waltz

200

Term for pasta that remains firm "to the teeth's" touch

al dente

300

1st four-letter word in the Lord's Prayer

name

300

From Spanish "juzgado", meaning courtroom, comes this nickname for jail

the hoosegow

300

According to Elwood P. Dowd, this 6 ft. rabbit is a pooka, what is the pooka's name?

Harvey

300

Name of the 1952 film where Gene Kelly dances but does not put up his umbrella.

Singin' in the Rain

300

Meat-in-pastry combo named for Napoleon's nemesis

beef Wellington

400

Spelled forward it's how you feel, backwards it spells disaster

mood

400

Meaning "cord fit for a king", it's now a fabric for us commoners.

corduroy

400

Leprechauns supposedly make these items for fairies to wear

shoes

400

Name of the 1977 musical where John Travolta struts his stuff to the Bee Gees "You Should be Dancing"

Saturday Night Fever

400

The "poivre" in steak au poivre

pepper

500

The 9th letter in the Greek alphabet, it's come to mean "a small amount"

iota

500

Scottish "twill" pronounced "tweel", was misread by a London cloth merchant & became this

tweed

500

Some fairies don't like this common expression of gratitude

saying "thank you"

Fairies rarely say 'thank you' to each other because the gesture binds them to watch over the recipient's life with their own.

500

Name of one of the greatest ballroom and tap dancers in film history, He starred in over 10 stage musicals and 30+ film musicals, 10 of which were with his equally-iconic dance partner, Ginger Rogers

Fred Astaire

500

The most popular takeout food in the US (2020)

Chicken,  Fingers or wings

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