Associations to the word «Hootenanny»

Wiktionary

HOOTENANNY, noun. (obsolete) A Placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing (see thingamajig, whatchamacallit)
HOOTENANNY, noun. An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope