Citations:hootin' tootin'

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English citations of hootin' tootin'

  • 1929, The Leatherneck - Volume 12, page 11:
    He's a ridin', shootin', hootin', tootin' fool from way out west where men are men and they still have telephone booths in the backyard (don't run!).
  • 1938, Northland, page 31:
    IF YOU NOTICED that tall, rip-roarin', hootin', tootin', eagle-eyed basketball shootin' cowboy out thar on that thar slippery range, that we call basketball court, he probably turned out to be my pal, your pal and everybody's pal
  • 1944, The Signalman's Journal - Volume 25, page 116:
    Then they shipped me up here to the Norfolk Base and I have been under another schooling program since the first of December. This is what is known as the Naval Landing Force and believe me it is a hootin' tootin' outfit.
  • 1952, North Country Life - Volumes 6-7, page 41:
    My brother's hootin' tootin' days came abruptly to an end one Sunday morning.
  • 1955, Frank Illingworth, Highway to the North, page 277:
    The other school holds that Service has done Dawson irreparable harm , that thanks to him it is known less as a gold-producing centre and a hub for the exploration of the surrounding wilderness than for the hootin', tootin' days of the Rush; that the hardship and horror were grossly exaggerated, and not only by Service.
  • 1958, Norman C. Evans, Spring Mill, Hidden Valley Village, the Story of Southern Indiana's Pioneer Village, page 68:
    I'm a hootin' tootin' River Tuff and alligator an' my skin is tuff.
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  • 1996, Arthur Crew Inman, Daniel Aaron, From a Darkened Room: The Inman Diary, page 392:
    My God, I'd hootin-tootin send them walking.