| 单词 | rooty-toot |
| 释义 | rooty-toot slang (chiefly U.S.).|ˈruːtɪtuːt|
Also root-a-toot, etc.
[A redupl. form, ult. of echoic origin, usu. representing the sound of a trumpet; cf. rootin' tootin' s.v. rooting ppl. a.2 and toot v.2]
Something noisy, riotous, or lively; spec. an early style of jazz music. Also as adj. and (in various nonce-uses) v. intr.
1887T. Darlington Folk-Speech of S. Cheshire 319 There was a rooty-tooty at Cholmondeley last Setterday, an' everybody from raïnd about went bu' mey. 1907G. B. Shaw in Neolith Nov. 9 The trumpet angel..root-a-tooted at the sky. 1931O. Nash Hard Lines 24 Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut. 1936Amer. Mercury XXXVIII. p. x/2 Rooty-toot,..razz-ma-tazz. 1937G. Frankau More of Us iii. 38 So Izzy Cohen (y sus Boys) root-tooting Moved Innocent to choric rhapsody. 1938Brit. Empire Mod. Eng. Illustr. Dict. 1257/2 Rooty-toot (Am.), old-fashioned jazz. 1951W. Morum Gabriel i. iii. 39 He knew hambone and joanna meant trombone and piano, But what could be a rooty-toot, a gobstick, skins and skeletons? 1976Listener 29 July 120/3 It's all done to the most cheerful, rooty-tooty music imaginable. 1977Time Out 28 Jan.–3 Feb. 17/3 Ma, some of them songs are rooty-toot-toot but the whole damn show is as real as George Wallace fairy and as sassy as a pile of rocking horse sheet. |
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