• n. 鄉(xiāng)間音樂；民謠合唱會(huì)

來自蘇格蘭語hootenanny,慶祝，聚會(huì)。其本身可能為無意義杜撰詞，或來自hoot nanny.該詞現(xiàn)也用于指叫不出名字的物件名。比較thingamajig,whatchamacallit.

hootenanny (n.)

"informal session of folk musicians," 1940, American English, earlier "a gadget" (1927), of unknown origin, perhaps a nonsense word.

Another device used by the professional car thief, and one recently developed to perfection, according to a large Chicago lock-testing laboratory, is a "hootenanny," so-called by the criminals using it. ["Popular Mechanics," February 1931]