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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals..
She let her hair down And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.
The shows claimed legitimacy as depictions of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures that were still regarded as savage[…] But these dances never were authentic rituals or ethnographic displays; instead they became known as “hootchy-kootchy” or “cooch” dances designed to please and excite male patrons.
In Mary Garden’s hands the princess was an amalgam of the diva of German opera and the ballerina of the Paris Opera rounded out by a good dose of the hootchy-kootchy girl from American vaudeville.
Use hootchy-kootchy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hootchy-kootchy means (US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals..
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She let her hair down And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.
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