Hootenanny vs Hoot - What's the difference?
hootenanny | hoot |
(obsolete) A Placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing (see thingamajig, whatchamacallit)
An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.
English placeholder terms
Appalachian English
A derisive cry or shout.
The cry of an owl.
(US, slang) A fun event or person. (See hootenanny)
A small particle
* 1878 , John Hanson Beadle, Western Wilds, and the Men who Redeem Them , page 611, Jones Brothers, 1878
To cry out or shout in contempt.
* Dryden
To make the cry of an owl.
* Shakespeare
To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.
* Jonathan Swift
As nouns the difference between hootenanny and hoot
is that hootenanny is a Placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing (see thingamajig, whatchamacallit)hoot is a derisive cry or shout.As a verb hoot is
to cry out or shout in contempt.hootenanny
English
Etymology 1
Unknown; potentially Scottish. Use is tied to the Appalachian culture in the US.Noun
(hootenannies)hoot
English
Noun
(en noun)- Well, it was Sunday morning, and the wheat nothing like ripe; but it was a chance, and I got onto my reaper and banged down every hoot of it before Monday night.
Usage notes
* (small particle) The term is nearly always encountered in a negative sense in such phrases as don't care a hoot'' or ''don't give two hoots . * (derisive cry) The phrase a hoot and a holler'' has a very different meaning to ''hoot and holler''. The former is a short distance, the latter is a verb of ''derisive cry .Verb
(en verb)- Matrons and girls shall hoot at thee no more.
- the clamorous owl that nightly hoots
- Partridge and his clan may hoot me for a cheat.
