hootenannies

noun

plural of hootenanny
1
as in sings

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2
as in dinguses

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hootenannies
  1. symphonies
  2. thingamajigs
  3. festivals
  4. thingamabobs
  5. jams
  6. doohickeys
  7. mechanisms
  8. doodads
Noun
  • Songs gain their power from repetition, while symphonies gain theirs from transformation.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
  • One is Enrico Lopez-Yanez, Class of 2007, a pops conductor formerly with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra who now has stints with the Detroit, Dallas and Pacific symphonies.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2026
Definition of symphonies
Noun
  • And this doesn’t include the little four-facial-expression thingamajigs in airport restrooms that ask you to rank cleanliness by touching them.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2025
Definition of thingamajigs
Noun
  • As the number of film festivals across Asia continues to grow, Midi Z believes originality has become more important than ever.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 25 July 2026
  • Tens of thousands attend the monthly flea market, while charitable walk-runs, community festivals and outdoor concerts have transformed the venue into one of Southern California's busiest public gathering places.
    — Tim Genske, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
Definition of festivals
Noun
  • Ariel’s reaction to King Triton blowing up all her thingamabobs is understandable.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 25 June 2026
  • But where barrel jeans play with proportions and cuts, these pants are more about doohickeys and thingamabobs, straps, flaps, and pulleys.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 10 Oct. 2025
Definition of thingamabobs
Noun
  • The workshops include all ingredients and participants learn skills such as cutting and folding meats, placement and spacing for jams and honeys.
    — Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026
  • Lopez and multiple bullpen arms got out of tough jams to limit the Red Sox 16 baserunners across the first nine innings to just two runs, only one earned.
    — Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of jams
Noun
  • There’s an amulet (one of those glowing doohickeys the fate of the cosmos hangs on), and your heart may sink every time someone starts chattering about it.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 May 2026
  • Co-writes from Brandi Carlile and vocals from Chris Stapleton can’t save it; the choruses can’t muster up the old dopamine hits; even the trademark Dessner doohickeys seem absent, just uninspired arrangements with heavily Melodyned vocals.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
Definition of doohickeys
Noun
  • New corporate taxes, less work hours Others say the mechanisms already exist for policymakers to create a more equitable AI economy without resorting to untested ideas.
    — Trevor Laurence Jockims, CNBC, 26 July 2026
  • In the mixed economy, redistributive and regulatory mechanisms are united with a market economy.
    — Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2026
Definition of mechanisms
Noun
  • These new doodads are often flashy, but always seem a little off the mark.
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
Definition of doodads
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