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Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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New Orleans boogie-<br />

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Songs:<br />

- Georgia White<br />

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- Edith North Johnson<br />

- Joe Liggins<br />

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- Big Joe Turner (Joe Turner)<br />

H O O C H I E C O O C H I E, H O O T C H I E C O O T C H I E<br />

Coochie (also spelled cootchie) is slang <br />

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-coochie dancer is a stripper, and a hoochiecoochie<br />

man is a pimp- or at least someone with strong powers <strong>of</strong> persuasion<br />

over women.<br />

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and fertility even before <strong>the</strong> development <strong>of</strong> written language. The Indo-European root<br />

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Slang terms for vagina, <br />

The same<br />

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an idea and a baby.<br />

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moonshine.<br />

Hooch came from <strong>the</strong> Hoochinoo tribe <strong>of</strong> Alaska, known for its potent homemade brew.<br />

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hoochie with coochie.<br />

Rap music has made hoochie and hoochie-mama popular modern terms for a<br />

promiscuous woman who dresses revealingly to get attention, as opposed to a straight up<br />

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And, <strong>of</strong> course, <strong>the</strong> hoochie coochie<br />

dance is still with us, according to <strong>the</strong> National Enquirer<br />

Jennifer Lopez explodes at fiancé Ben Affleck when she walked in and found him<br />

enjoying a private hoochie-coochie dance performed by curvy co-star<br />

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Question: Does that make Ben a hoochie?<br />

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