Meaning of hootin', tootin' | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [B2]

Examples

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

“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!).”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

“The other school holds that Service has done Dawson irreparable harm , that thanks to him it is known less as a gold-producing centre and a hub for the exploration of the surrounding wilderness than for the hootin', tootin' days of the Rush; that the hardship and horror were grossly exaggerated, and not only by Service.”

“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.”

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