# schuhplattle
## English
### Verb

schuhplattle (third-person singular simple present schuhplattles, present participle schuhplattling, simple past and past participle schuhplattled)
* (intransitive) To dance the Schuhplattler.
    Alternative forms: Schuhplattle, Schuhplattler / schuhplattler (rare)
** 1936, Henry Channon, diary; quoted in Duff Hart-Davis, “Entertainments”, in Hitler’s Games: The 1936 Olympics, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1986, →ISBN, page 205:It was fantastic, peasants dancing and schuhplattling, vast women carrying pretzels and beer, a ship, a beerhouse, crowds of gay, laughing people, animals . . .
** 1953 March 6, “Penn State Students Do a Bit of ‘Schuhplattling’”, in Sunbury Daily Item, volume XVI, number 55, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page 18, column 2:To the uninitiated the sight of strong men eagerly slapping themselves may be a trifle disconcerting. But if it happens at Penn State, there’s no cause for alarm. The boys are merely “schuhplattling.”
** 1962 October 31, Terry French, “Gay ‘schuhplattling’ knows no age limit”, in The Province, 65th year, number 182, Vancouver, B.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 17, column 4:When he talks about schuhplattling, his eyes light up, and his feet start to dance, for this is the traditional “shoe slapping” dance so famed from Germany and Austria. The boys in lederhosen and the familiar green, embroidered jackets with staghorn buttons, and the girls in long skirts, white aprons, and ruffled blouses peeping out from flower filled velvet bodices a-jingle with decorative coins, spend most of their free time schuhplattling.
** 1983 October 5, Mike Vogel, “A Season to Toast Traditions”, in The Buffalo News, volume CCVI, number 178, Buffalo, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C-1, column 1:Ironically, though, the most visible and colorful German celebration this month — the one that could send a few hundred German dancers merrily schuhplattling around Niagara Square this Saturday evening — technically isn’t an Oktoberfest at all.
** 1996 August 7, Regina Medina, “Local German clubs seek to involve new generation: Younger members needed, says older, current leadership”, in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.: Gannett Rochester Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1E, column 4:She began schuhplattling, or shoeslapping, when she was 5 years old, thanks to her German grandfather.
** 1997 May 6, “Schuhplattlers dance May 10”, in The Sheboygan Press, Sheboygan, Wis., →ISSN, →OCLC, “Community Notes” section, page C4, column 5:During the evening, the D’Werdenfelsers and visiting clubs will schuhplattle.
** 2012 January 27, Roosevelt Mortuary, “Frank Niedermeier”, in Daily Breeze‎, Hermosa Beach, Calif., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-03-13:He was a devoted member of the Los Angeles Bavarian Club since 1959, where he schuhplattled and also taught the dance to adults and recently to the grandchildren and children of the club.

### Noun

schuhplattle (countable and uncountable, plural schuhplattles)
* Uncommon form of Schuhplattler (“type of dance”).
** 1953 March 6, “Penn State Students Do a Bit of ‘Schuhplattling’”, in Sunbury Daily Item, volume XVI, number 55, Sunbury, Pa., →OCLC, page 18, column 2:The “schuhplattle,” according to Warren Hommas, who inspired the movement on campus, is an old German folk dance.
** 1963 June 16, Dick Cunningham, “Folk Dancing Runs in Family”, in Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, volume XCVII, number 23, Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company, →OCLC, section H (Home and Hobby), page 1, column 2:They romp over the lawn at Lake Virginia west of Excelsior doing schuhplattles—the spectacular dances in which the men look as if they are slapping each other when actually they are slapping their shoes, the ground, their thighs, anything but the other guy.
** 1978 September 13, Joe Ganley, “Oktoberfest”, in Syracuse Herald-Journal, volume 102, number 30,456, Syracuse, N.Y., →OCLC, page 13, column 1:And, an added feature will be a schuhplattler group from Utica doing the famous schuhplattle. You don’t know what schuhplattle is? We didn’t either. It’s that dance where the participants slap their shoes and their fannies as they jump around.
** 2003 May 28, “Austrian Edelweiss”, in Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:While you dine you'll be entertained by the Alpenlanders Band; the Edelweiss Singers; and the energetic Edelweiss Dancers performing various polkas, waltzes and schuhplattles.