hootin' tootin'

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hootin' tootin'

  1. Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.
    Synonym: rootin' tootin'
    • 1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58:
      He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.
    • 1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59:
      We’d knowed her since she was a yearlin’ as a swell spot for a nervous wreck to rest up in, but now she’s turned into a hootin’, tootin’ seaport, all disguised in wavin’ flags an’ banners.
    • 1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47:
      Think everyone would like to see what a hootin’, tootin’, fightin’ gang like yours looks like.
    • 1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14:
      [P]aper on which someday I would write the story of how to make paper from wood, the romance of the forest camps, the river drive in spring, the roarin', hootin’, tootin’ life of the old-time lumberjack, the story of his favorite hobby, birling logs in competition in the booms, the prize usually a keg of whisky in those days.
    • 1969, The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, page 37:
      Again, it is a lurid sex crime. Again, the crime revolves around a gang of small town hootin’, tootin’, harebrained hoodlums.
    • 2000, Mark James, Into the Bear Pit, page 211:
      He showed that you could be a rah-rah, hootin’, tootin’ flag-waver without crossing the line into boorish behaviour.
    • 2001, Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa, page 19:
      For one week over Easter the quiet streets of Oudtshoorn are transformed by 100,000 hootin’, tootin’ revellers unashamedly celebrating Afrikaans culture.
    • 2020, Stanley R. Matthews, Motor Matt’s ‘Century’ Run, or, The Governor’s Courier:
      Purty nigh all my life I been a hootin’, tootin’ disturber o’ the peace, committin’ depperdations as makes me blush to think of; but right here is where I do somethin’ fer civilization and progress, which’ll go a good ways to’rds makin’ up fer the past.
  2. That makes hooting and tooting sounds.
    • 1961, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Arrow of Love, page 170:
      And an old-fashioned hootin’ tootin’ calliope from Sioux Falls.