hootenannyn.
/ˈhuːt(ə)nani/ Originally U.S. dialect.
1. A ‘thingumajig’.
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1929 Amer. Speech 5 151 Hootananny, the same as gadget.
1962 W. Schirra in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 31 Don't worry about it. That's just the hootenanny valve on the watchamacallit fluttering a little.
2. An informal session or concert of folk music and singing. Also transferred.
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the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [noun] > thing or person whose name is forgotten or unknown
swilk and swilkc1175
thinga1325
what-call-ye-him1473
who knows what?1548
I don't know (also I know not, I wot not) what1568
God (also (the) Lord) knows (also wot) what1569
washical1575
what-d'ye-call-'em1593
so-and-so1596
whiblin1604
so-fortha1616
jiggumboba1625
know-not-whata1642
thingum1652
thingum-thangum1684
what's-his-name1697
something or other1706
thingummy1737
thingamabob1751
something1764
what's-her-name1816
conundrum1817
thingamerry1819
thingamajig1824
somebody1825
what's-its-name1839
whangdoodle1852
thingummytite1865
dingus1866
what-not1876
whatsita1882
gilguy1883
gadget1886
dingbat1894
doohickey1914
oojah1917
oojah capivvy1917
oojiboo1918
doodad1920
tiddlypush1923
whosis1923
thingy1927
doodah1928
doofer1937
hootenanny1940
whatchamacallit1942
gizmo1943
frammis1948
whosit1948
whifflow1961
oobyjiver1963
whatsisface1967
oojamaflip1970
what's-her-face1980
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > concert > types of
Philharmonic concert1740
benefit-concert1759
chamber concert1760
recital1762
Dutch concert1774
concert performance1777
philharmonica1796
musical soirée1821
sacred concert1832
soirée musicale1836
promenade concert1839
pianoforte recital1840
ballad concert1855
piano recital1855
Monday pop1862
Pop1862
promenade1864
popular1865
Schubertiad1869
recitative1873
organ recital1877
pop concert1880
smoker1887
smoke concert1888
café concert1891
prom1902
smoke-ho1918
smoking-concert1934
hootenanny1940
opry1940
Liederabend1958
1940 Washington (Seattle) New Dealer 25 July 4 (advt.) The New Dealer's Midsummer Hootenanny. You Might Even Be Surprised!
1959 Times 10 Jan. 7/6 All over the British Isles to-day at ceilidhes, hootennanys and similar gatherings in pubs, clubs and private houses, folk music is flourishing as it has not done for over a century.
1963 Daily Mail 11 Sept. 8/4 Hootenanny...is to the folk singer what a jam session is to the jazzman.
1964 Radio Times 5 Mar. 25/1 The Hoot'nanny Show.
1964 Punch 2 Sept. 348/1 A report of one of the side-shows in the psychiatrists' hootenanny held in London last week.
1964 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 13 Jan. (1970) 44 I love folk music, but the name ‘Hootenanny’ rather repels me.
1972 Time 5 June 4/2 Memorial Day: a three day national hootenanny.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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