cooch

noun

variants or cootch

ˈküch

plural -es

: a dance performed by women that was once common in carnivals and fairs and marked by a sinuous and often suggestive twisting and shaking of the torso and limbs

a roving carnival cooch dancer

—Frank Barton

a circus cooch show

Word History

Etymology

by shortening & alteration from earlier hootchy-kootchy

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