hootenannyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈhutənæni/

名詞

hootenanny (plural hootenannies)

1. (music) An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.

   Coordinate term: jam session

   • 2012 December 21, Monique Keiran, “Humans get more nutrition from tastier food”, in Times Colonist, 155th year, number 10, Victoria, B.C.: TC Publication Limited Partnership, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A13, column 4:

     The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.

   • 2013 August 11, Jody Rosen, “Jody Rosen on the Rise of Bro-Country”, in New York Magazine‎:

     It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday.

2. (obsolete) A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing.

   Synonyms: thingamajig; see also Thesaurus:thingy

Further reading

• hootenanny on Wikipedia.Wikipedia