hootenanny /ˈhutənæni/ noun2 •An informal, festive performance by folk singers, often including audience participation with the use of acoustic instruments.It bespoke country’s devotion to realism, to songs about Saturday night’s hootenanny and Sunday morning’s moral reckoning, not to mention the kitchen-table truths of Monday through Friday. — 2013 •(no longer used) A placeholder word for a nonspecific or forgotten thing. formshootenannies