【How-to】What twerking means - Howto.org

But in a 2015 update, the Oxford English Dictionary entry for twerk gave 1848 as the first date the word is used as a verb, meaning “to move (something) with a twitching, twisting, or jerking motion.” As a noun, it was first used in 1820 (albeit with a different spelling) in a letter to Frankenstein author Mary Shelley …