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hootenanny
/ˈhutənæni/
noun 2
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2ADJ.
fun
HOOTENANNY + NOUN
morning, sunday
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noun
1
An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.
The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and have a rip-roaring hootenanny.
It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday.
2
A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing.
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The brain matches the mind-image of doughnuts to images and emotions stored in his brain’s memory regions: “Mmmm … doughnuts.” Then—bingo!—his brain’s dopamine-producing reward centres light up and ha
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It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday.
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They had fun at the hootenanny.
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