單詞
hootenanny
英 ['hu?t(?),n?n?]
美['hutn?ni]
基本信息
- n. 鄉間音樂；民謠合唱會
詞態變化
復數:?hootenannies;
中文詞源
hootenanny 民間歌舞會
來自蘇格蘭語hootenanny,慶祝，聚會。其本身可能為無意義杜撰詞，或來自hoot nanny.該詞現也用于指叫不出名字的物件名。比較thingamajig,whatchamacallit.
英文詞源
- hootenanny (n.)
- "informal session of folk musicians," 1940, American English, earlier "a gadget" (1927), of unknown origin, perhaps a nonsense word.
Another device used by the professional car thief, and one recently developed to perfection, according to a large Chicago lock-testing laboratory, is a "hootenanny," so-called by the criminals using it. ["Popular Mechanics," February 1931]
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