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hootchy-kootchy, n. and a.|ˈhuːtʃɪˈkuːtʃɪ|
Also hoochie(-y)-coochie, hootchie-kootchie, hootchy-kootch, etc.
[Origin unascertained.]
A. n. A kind of erotic dance.
B. attrib. and Comb.; also as adj., indecent, ‘suggestive’.
[1890B. Hall Turnover Club vii. 75, I have been told that one night ‘Hoochy-Coochy’ Rice, the minstrel man—they always call Billy ‘Hoochy-Coochy’ because he invariably says that whenever he comes on stage—entered [Charlie] Hoyt's room..and stole a new song. ]1898F. P. Dunne Mr. Dooley in Peace & War (1899) 18 He's seen th' hootchy-kootchy an' th' Pammer House barber shop. Ibid. 36 Hootchy-kootchy girls dancin' before him. 1901Everybody's Mag. Oct. 437/2 The Doctor was too professional to relish the hootchie cootchie dance. 1904[see bark v.1 2 b]. 1925Manch. Guardian Weekly Aug. 103/4 That hootchy-kootchy sort of intonation. 1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route xiv. 155 Enlivening them with the vitality of a hoochy-coochy dancer. 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender is Night xv. 273 There was the sound of a whining, tinkling hootchy-kootchy show. 1945Record Changer (Fairfax, Virginia) Jan., The Chicago World Fair of 1893..gave the widest possible publicity to the new Negro dances..the cakewalk, the pasamala, the hoochie koochie, the bully dance and the bombershay. 1949R. Harvey Curtain Time v. 38 They expected a theatre man to be brassy and leering, like a sideshow barker at a hoochie-koochie tent. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime viii. 149 A spate of exotic dances became the talk, from the hoochie-coochie to the bombashay. 1962W. Stegner Wolf Willow iv. iii. 256 A travelling group of hootchie-kootchie dancers pitched a tent in the brush and sent their impressario through town advertising ‘performances’. 1973Parade 24 June 12/1 I'm trying to counteract the hootchy-kootchy aura that the dance has. |