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单词 rooty-toot
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rooty-tootn.adj.

Brit. /ˈruːtɪˌtuːt/, /ˌruːtɪˈtuːt/, U.S. /ˈˌrudiˈˌtut/
Forms: 1800s– rooty-tooty, 1900s– rooti-ti-toot, 1900s– rooty-toot; also with reduplication of the second element.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: rooty-toot v.
Etymology: < rooty-toot v.Several of the forms show further full or partial reduplication of particular syllables, or suffixation (compare -y suffix6). It is uncertain whether there is any etymological connection with earlier English regional (west midland) rooty-toot ‘feast, party’, which is attested in the following quot.:1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire There was a rooty-tooty at Cholmondeley last Setterday, an' everybody from raïnd abowt went bu' mey.
slang (chiefly U.S.).
Something noisy, riotous, or lively; spec. an early style of jazz music. Also: a trumpeting or similar sound; a flourish, a fanfare. Occasionally as adj.In early use associated with the character of Punch in the Punch and Judy show, and apparently used as a call to announce the performance of such a show (see quot. 1852 and the description in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed., 1861) III. 50/1).In quot. 1931 perhaps an imperative use of rooty-toot v.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > riotous excitement > [noun]
hoigh1576
rooty-toot1852
rampage1860
razzle-dazzle1888
society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > lively or rowdy
racket1745
rooty-toot1852
razoo1864
shindig1871
ram sammy1891
whoopee1909
ding-dong1936
clambake1937
knees-up1939
rave1960
rave-up1967
bashment1996
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > rowdy noise
riotc1440
racket1565
obstreperousness1655
rattle1688
rowdyism1838
rowdy-dow1845
rowdiness1847
rooty-toot1852
racketiness1939
society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > jazz > [noun] > types of
rooty-toot1852
soul music1920
Chicago1923
gutbucket1925
symphonic jazz1926
Dixieland1927
jive1928
white jazz1931
Harlem1934
jump1937
New Orleans1938
free jazz1941
progressive jazz1944
bebop1945
gypsy swing1945
modern jazz1946
bop1948
new jazz1949
cool1952
Afro-jazz1954
funk1954
gypsy jazz1955
trad jazz1955
trad1956
whorehouse music1956
new thing1962
fusion1965
1852 Eliza Cook's Jrnl. 23 Oct. 410/1 Punch, whose ‘root-toot-toot-tooy’, resounding along the street, still draws all heads to the windows.
?1865 Illustr. London Almanack 1866 80/2 (advt.) Punch's Show, and How to Act It, with the funny root-i-toot. A magnificent wooden Show, 17 in. high.
1895 Los Angeles Times 6 Jan. 18/6 That famous air which goes: ‘Rooty-ty toot, ty-toot, toot, toot, Rooty, tooty, toot, ty-toot, toot, toot.’
1916 D. Wyllarde Exile 213 The Marines played ‘God Save the King’... ‘Silly nonsense!.. I've told them time enough not to treat me like a Punch and Judy show. “Rooty-toot!—here he comes!” I might just as well take a drum and fife with me.’
1919 St. Nicholas Dec. 133 With a ‘Rooty-toot-toot!’ and a ‘Rooty-toot-toot!’ Bennie is playing his little tin flute.
1931 O. Nash Hard Lines 24 Oh rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.
1936 Amer. Mercury 38 p. x/2 Rooty-toot,..razz-ma-tazz.
1938 Brit. Empire Mod. Eng. Illustr. Dict. 1257/2 Rooty-toot (Am.), old-fashioned jazz.
1951 W. 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?
1976 Listener 29 July 120/3 It's all done to the most cheerful, rooty-tooty music imaginable.
1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 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.
1994 R. Lewis Life & Death Peter Sellers iii. 126 The show begins with a brisk rooty-toot from the orchestra, drum rolls and fanfares.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

rooty-tootv.

Brit. /ˈruːtɪˌtuːt/, U.S. /ˈrudiˌtut/
Forms: 1800s root-a-too-toot, 1900s– root-a-toot, 1900s– root-toot, 1900s– rooty-toot, 1900s– rooty-toot-toot.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative of the sound of a trumpet (compare earlier toot v.2, toot n.2), with reduplication with consonant variation. With the sense ‘to move or behave jauntily’ compare later rootin' tootin' adj., rooty-toot n.Several of the forms show further full or partial reduplication of particular syllables.
intransitive. To make a tooting sound with, or as with, a horn or trumpet. Also: to move or behave jauntily.
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1850 Spirit of Times 26 Oct. 425/2 But this root-a-too-tooting, and bleating, and blasting; This raising a horrible din everlasting.
1907 G. B. Shaw in Neolith Nov. 9 The trumpet angel..root-a-tooted at the sky.
1937 G. Frankau More of Us iii. 38 So Izzy Cohen (y sus Boys) root-tooting Moved Innocent to choric rhapsody.
1986 Boulder (Colorado) Business Rep. (Nexis) June 8 Boulder does not seek thousands of free-spending conventioneers rooty-tooting down the Pearl Street Mall.
2001 M. Sorrell tr. A. Rimbaud Coll. Poems 13 Our master rode by rooty-tooting On his hunting-horn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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