单词 | rooty-toot |
释义 | rooty-tootn.adj. slang (chiefly U.S.). Something noisy, riotous, or lively; spec. an early style of jazz music. Also: a trumpeting or similar sound; a flourish, a fanfare. Occasionally as adj.In early use associated with the character of Punch in the Punch and Judy show, and apparently used as a call to announce the performance of such a show (see quot. 1852 and the description in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed., 1861) III. 50/1).In quot. 1931 perhaps an imperative use of rooty-toot v. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > [noun] hoigh1576 rooty-toot1852 rampage1860 razzle-dazzle1888 society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > lively or rowdy racket1745 rooty-toot1852 razoo1864 shindig1871 ram sammy1891 whoopee1909 ding-dong1936 clambake1937 knees-up1939 rave1960 rave-up1967 bashment1996 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > rowdy noise riotc1440 racket1565 obstreperousness1655 rattle1688 rowdyism1838 rowdy-dow1845 rowdiness1847 rooty-toot1852 racketiness1939 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of rooty-toot1852 soul music1920 Chicago1923 gutbucket1925 symphonic jazz1926 Dixieland1927 jive1928 white jazz1931 Harlem1934 jump1937 New Orleans1938 free jazz1941 progressive jazz1944 bebop1945 gypsy swing1945 modern jazz1946 bop1948 new jazz1949 cool1952 Afro-jazz1954 funk1954 gypsy jazz1955 trad jazz1955 trad1956 whorehouse music1956 new thing1962 fusion1965 1852 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 23 Oct. 410/1 Punch, whose ‘root-toot-toot-tooy’, resounding along the street, still draws all heads to the windows. ?1865 Illustr. London Almanack 1866 80/2 (advt.) Punch's Show, and How to Act It, with the funny root-i-toot. A magnificent wooden Show, 17 in. high. 1895 Los Angeles Times 6 Jan. 18/6 That famous air which goes: ‘Rooty-ty toot, ty-toot, toot, toot, Rooty, tooty, toot, ty-toot, toot, toot.’ 1916 D. Wyllarde Exile 213 The Marines played ‘God Save the King’... ‘Silly nonsense!.. I've told them time enough not to treat me like a Punch and Judy show. “Rooty-toot!—here he comes!” I might just as well take a drum and fife with me.’ 1919 St. Nicholas Dec. 133 With a ‘Rooty-toot-toot!’ and a ‘Rooty-toot-toot!’ Bennie is playing his little tin flute. 1931 O. Nash Hard Lines 24 Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. 1936 Amer. Mercury 38 p. x/2 Rooty-toot,..razz-ma-tazz. 1938 Brit. Empire Mod. Eng. Illustr. Dict. 1257/2 Rooty-toot (Am.), old-fashioned jazz. 1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. iii. 39 He knew hambone and joanna meant trombone and piano, But what could be a rooty-toot, a gobstick, skins and skeletons? 1976 Listener 29 July 120/3 It's all done to the most cheerful, rooty-tooty music imaginable. 1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 17/3 Ma, some of them songs are rooty-toot-toot but the whole damn show is as real as George Wallace fairy and as sassy as a pile of rocking horse sheet. 1994 R. Lewis Life & Death Peter Sellers iii. 126 The show begins with a brisk rooty-toot from the orchestra, drum rolls and fanfares. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). rooty-tootv. intransitive. To make a tooting sound with, or as with, a horn or trumpet. Also: to move or behave jauntily. ΚΠ 1850 Spirit of Times 26 Oct. 425/2 But this root-a-too-tooting, and bleating, and blasting; This raising a horrible din everlasting. 1907 G. B. Shaw in Neolith Nov. 9 The trumpet angel..root-a-tooted at the sky. 1937 G. Frankau More of Us iii. 38 So Izzy Cohen (y sus Boys) root-tooting Moved Innocent to choric rhapsody. 1986 Boulder (Colorado) Business Rep. (Nexis) June 8 Boulder does not seek thousands of free-spending conventioneers rooty-tooting down the Pearl Street Mall. 2001 M. Sorrell tr. A. Rimbaud Coll. Poems 13 Our master rode by rooty-tooting On his hunting-horn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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