rootin'-tootin'
/ruːtɪnˈtuːtɪn
/adjective informal, chiefly North American
Brashly or boisterously enthusiastic: a rootin‘-tootin’ Wild West show...
- This rootin'-tootin' Texan seems like a regular Joe.
- This time, they have real rootin'-tootin' experts saying so on the record.
Origin
Late 19th century: reduplication of rooting in the sense 'inquisitive', an early dialect sense of the compound.
- optical path
- optical printer
- optical pumping
- optical pyrometer
- optical rotation
- optical rotatory dispersion
- optical scanner
- optical scanning
- optical sound
- optical square
- optical switch
- optical transistor
- optical trap
- viscid
- viscidity
- viscidium
- viscoelastic
- viscoelasticity
- viscometer
- viscometric
- viscometrically
- viscometry
- Visconti, Luchino
- viscose
- viscosimeter