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▪ I. hoochie Mil. slang.|ˈhuːtʃɪ|
Also hooch, hoochy, hootch.
[? ad. Jap. uchi dwelling.]
A shelter or dwelling (esp. one that is insubstantial or temporary).
1952San Francisco Examiner 26 Oct. 18/4 The ‘hoochie’ is a GI term for a bunker or a prepared defensive position. 1954Britannica Bk. of Year 637/2 In its final stages, the war in Korea yielded a number of new terms, among them the British soldier's name for a dugout—a Hoochie. 1960Amer. Speech XXXV. 264 Cinderella-san lived in hootchie with sisters. 1960(citing an Army weekly newspaper in Korea) in Sat. Rev. (1968) 26 Oct. 35/3 All through our hootch, Not a creature was stirring. 1964N.Y. Times 4 Sept., Hooches, the huts woven from banana leaves and roofed with straw or corrugated tin that are the standard housing for Vietnamese outside the cities. Some Americans have appropriated the term for their own quonset-styled barracks. 1966Flying Dec. 54/2 A hootch (a house or a hut is known as a hootch in Vietnam). 1968N.Y. Rev. Books 4 Jan. 4/1 Such targets as hooch lines (rows of houses along a road or canal). 1968TV Times (Austral.) 6 Mar. 11/1, I was lying in a little scrap of a tent the Australians call a hoochie. 1969I. Kemp Brit. G.I. in Vietnam iv. 75 Around us were scattered the makeshift ‘hooches’ of the A.R.V.N. soldiers, built of bamboo, wattle and mud; rectangular in shape with sloping, thatched roofs, they were..small. 1969Time 5 Dec. 18/3 Calley's men in less than 20 minutes ignited ‘hootches’ and chased all the villagers..into groups, and shot everyone. 1971Fremdsprachen XV. 207 A stereo set was blaring in an enlisted men's hootch shortly after midnight.
▪ II. hoochie, n.2 slang (orig. in African-American usage).
Brit. |huːtʃi|, U.S. |hutʃi|
Forms: 19– hoochy, 19– hoochie, 19– hootchie, 19– hootchy, 19– hoochee, 19– houchy
[Origin uncertain; perhaps shortened ‹hootchy-kootchy n.; compare hootchie-pap sexual intercourse (1925 in J. E. Lighter Hist. Dict. Amer. Slang (1997)).]
More fully hoochie mama. A young woman; esp. one who is promiscuous or who dresses or behaves in a sexually provocative or overtly seductive manner.
1989‘Big Daddy Kane’ Pimpin' Ain't Easy (transcription of song) in www.lyricsfreak.com (O.E.D. Archive) 'Specially if the hoochie's on birth control. 1993Washington Post (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Final ed.) c1 I'm not willing to do any ‘shaky thing’; no ‘hoochie mama’ stuff. 1999Commerc. Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) (Nexis) 15 Oct. All they sell in here is cheap, hoochy mama, ghetto fabulous crap, anyway. 2002L. Manoy Where to park your Broomstick xxi. 271 Being empowered and free doesn't necessarily translate into being a hoochie. Wiccans know that freedom means responsibility. |