Watusi

[ wah-too-see ]

noun

, plural Wa·tu·sis, (especially collectively) Wa·tu·si.

1. Tutsi.

Watusi

/ wəˈtuːzɪ; wəˈtʊtsɪ /

noun

1. a member of a cattle-owning Negroid people of Rwanda and Burundi in Africa

Example Sentences

A yellow metal cattle gate serves as the passenger side door — allowing for the Watusi bull to be tied up — and a set of longhorns serves as a hood ornament.

From Seattle Times

The state environment department said a zebra was traded for tools and deer and Watusi cattle were traded off to private individuals, without proper accounting.

From Seattle Times

Near the end of the show, he even did a new song called “This Too Shall Pass,” in which he urged listeners in his pinched but still boyish voice to “do the social distancing” as though it were the twist or the watusi.

From Los Angeles Times

It may hail the alligator and watusi dance crazes of the 60s but music from Patti Smith’s blistering 1975 album, Horses, drives some of Michael Clark’s most deliriously thrilling modern choreography in the first act of this 2017 Barbican production now on BBC iPlayer.

From The Guardian

It distracted the acrobats practicing their flips on an aerial hoop and sauntered toward the languid, pregnant tiger, and stalls of horses and African Watusi bulls.

From New York Times