Hootchy-kootchy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hootchy-kootchy is a noun meaning (US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
Meaning
(US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
More Meanings
- (attributive) Something suggestive or sexualized.
Example Sentences
She let her hair down And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- hootchy-kootchies
- hoochie-coochie
- hoochy-coochy
- hoochy-koochy
- hootchie-cootchie
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hootchie, hooey, hokeypokey, hootch, hoky-poky, hula-hula.
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