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hootchie-cootchie

hootchie-cootchie is the alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.

Meaning of hootchy-kootchy

Noun

hootchy-kootchy (plural hootchy-kootchies)

  1. (US) A kind of erotic dance similar to a belly dance, formerly performed at carnivals.
    • She let her hair down
      And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.1961, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, “Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)”, performed by The Coasters
  2. (attributive) Something suggestive or sexualized.
    • 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.2005, Toni Bentley, Sisters of Salome, page 41

Forms of hootchie-cootchie

pluralhootchie-cootchies

Questions about hootchie-cootchie

What is hootchie-cootchie the alternative form of?
Hootchie-cootchie is the alternative form of hootchy-kootchy.

Words near hootchie-cootchie in the dictionary

  1. hootanannies
  2. hootananny
  3. hootch
  4. hootches
  5. hootchie
  6. hootchie-cootchie
  7. hootchie-cootchies
  8. hootchies
  9. hootchy-kootchies
  10. hootchy-kootchy
  11. hooted

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