hootin', tootin'

A form of hootin' tootin' — Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.

Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of hootin' tootin'.

    Think everyone would like to see what a hootin’, tootin’, fightin’ gang like yours looks like.

    1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47
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    He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.

    1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58

    He's a ridin', shootin', hootin', tootin' fool from way out west where men are men and they still have telephone booths in the backyard (don't run!).

    1929, The Leatherneck - Volume 12, page 11

    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.

    1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59

    IF YOU NOTICED that tall, rip-roarin', hootin', tootin', eagle-eyed basketball shootin' cowboy out thar on that thar slippery range, that we call basketball court, he probably turned out to be my pal, your pal and everybody's pal

    1938, Northland, page 31

    [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.

    1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14
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