| 词汇 | hootchie-kootchie |
| 词源 | hootchie-kootchie. The Turkish belly dance that many of us “have no stomach for,” as Beatrice Lillie once said. This name for the “mildly lascivious” dance—“not as sensuous as actual bumps and grinds since the hips are swayed rather than the pelvis rotated,” we’re told—has no source in an oriental name, unless it comes from the Bengal state of Cooch Behar. The best guess is that hootchie-kootchie derives from the English dialect words hotch, “to shake,” and couch (pronounced cooch), “to protrude.” But this fails to explain why the dance was first re- corded as the cootchie-coot in the 1890s. Dancer Little Egypt (Catherine Deviene) made a fortune and got herself arrested several times by dancing the hootchie-kootchie in the nude at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and a number of private parties. A lowdown hootchie-kootcher, like Danny Kaye’s Minnie the Moocher, is a hootchie-kootchie dancer. |
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