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hootchy-kootchy
noun 2
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2HOOTCHY-KOOTCHY + NOUN
american, girl
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noun
1
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.
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
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.
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She let her hair down And he did the hoochie-koochie real slow.
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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 th
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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.
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