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/ˈhutənæni/ · noun
(music) An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments..
The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.
It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday.
Use hootenanny when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hootenanny means (music) An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments..
Common synonyms include thingamajig, Sorted by number of Google hits, widget, hickey.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.
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