hootenannie

A folk music jam session.

I hear that Neil Young will be playing at the fairgrounds hootenannie this week.

by Bud Beam July 11, 2017

hootenanny

"festa"

"Wright has to be given credit for parading his anticapitalist sensibilities, but his critique reads like a lecture at the hootenanny weekend of the Socialist Hiking Club, Berkeley Chapter."

In: Jacoby, Russell. "Real Men Find Real Utopias." Dissent (Winter 2011), accessed January 15, 2020 at dissentmagazineorg/article/real-men-find-real-utopias

by Valued Cardholder January 15, 2020

Hootenanny

Original meaning is a thingamajig in US slang and it can be used to conceal the meaning from children, strangers etc. Usually tools. In the later 20th Century it came to mean an informal party with music.

Don dropped his spanner under the hood. Dang! Pass me my hootenanny.

by The Fat Welshman August 5, 2021

Hootenanny

Noun, a country style party that is one step above a shindig

What kind of party, hootenanny or shindig, I need to know what to wear!?

by paranesus March 3, 2020