hootenanny
nounUK /ˈhutənæni/
Etymology Unknown; potentially Scottish. Use is tied to the Appalachian culture in the US.
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.
- The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.2012 December 21, Monique Keiran, “Humans get more nutrition from tastier food”, in Times Colonist, 155th year, number 10, Victoria, B.C.: TC Publication Limited Partnership, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A13, column 4:
- It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday.2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine:
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Obsolete A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing.