hootin' tootin'

See also: hootin', tootin'

English

Alternative forms

• hootin', tootin'

Adjective

hootin' tootin'

1. Rowdy; boisterous and noisy.

   Synonym: rootin' tootin'

   • 1902, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders: His Adventures West and East, page 58:

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

   • 1936, Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, page 59:

     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.

   • 1938, Telegraph Workers Journal, page 47:

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

   • 1943, “The Author and Journalist”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 14:

     [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.

   • 1969, The Journal of the Producers Guild of America, page 37:

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

   • 2000, Mark James, Into the Bear Pit, page 211:

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

   • 2001, Pat Hopkins, Eccentric South Africa, page 19:

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

   • 2020, Stanley R. Matthews, Motor Matt’s ‘Century’ Run, or, The Governor’s Courier:

     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.

2. That makes hooting and tooting sounds.
   • 1961, Frederick Feikema Manfred, Arrow of Love, page 170:

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