Meaning of hootin' tootin' | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.
2. That makes hooting and tooting sounds.

Examples

“He was the best, hootin’, tootin’ son-of-a-seacook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness.”

“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.”

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

“[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.”

“Again, it is a lurid sex crime. Again, the crime revolves around a gang of small town hootin’, tootin’, harebrained hoodlums.”

“He showed that you could be a rah-rah, hootin’, tootin’ flag-waver without crossing the line into boorish behaviour.”

“For one week over Easter the quiet streets of Oudtshoorn are transformed by 100,000 hootin’, tootin’ revellers unashamedly celebrating Afrikaans culture.”

“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.”

“And an old-fashioned hootin’ tootin’ calliope from Sioux Falls.”

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