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Country songfests |
Sing-alongs |
What owls do with goats outside English songfests |
Childminders put on warning mostly for parties with singing |
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Jan 6 2017 The Washington Post |
Oct 29 2014 Newsday.com |
Aug 29 2012 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
Nov 4 2005 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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Plural form of hootenanny. |
an informal gathering with folk music. |
An informal gathering with folk music. |
Hootenannies might refer to |
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Hootenanny is an Appalachian colloquialism that was used in early twentieth century America as a placeholder name to refer to things whose names were forgotten or unknown. In this usage it was synonymous with thingamajig or whatchamacallit, as in: "Hand me that hootenanny." Hootenanny was also an old country word for "party". Nowadays the word most commonly refers to a folk music party with an open mic, at which different performers are welcome to get up and play in front of an audience. * Hootenanny was also used by the leadership of early firefighting battalions to describe a "meeting of the minds" of higher ups or various department heads. The term has trickled down to working companies and is now used, with some frequency, at working incidents and other circumstances that require a focused discussion between key individuals. Most recently it was adopted for use during the annual Fire Department Instructors Conference. Logistics professionals for the conference employ the word to call |