hootchy-kootchyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• hoochie-coochie
• hoochy-coochy
• hoochy-koochy
• hootchie-cootchie

語源

Unknown. Attested from the 1890s. Compare kouta kouta dance, a similar belly dance also attested from the 1890s. Possibly influenced by forms such as honky-tonk (from 1880s), hula-hula (from 1820s), or hurdy-gurdy (from 1740s). Later forms coochie, cooch appear to derive from hootchy-kootchy.

発音

• 韻: -uːtʃi

名詞

hootchy-kootchy (plural hootchy-kootchies)

1. (US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
   • 1961, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)”, performed by The Coasters:

     She let her hair down
     And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.

   • 2012, Lauren Rabinovitz, Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity‎, page 46:

     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.

2. (attributive) Something suggestive or sexualized.
   • 2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome‎, page 41:

     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.

参考

• hoochie
• hoochie mama

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