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Like hootenanny songs
Answer for the clue "Like hootenanny songs ", 5 letters:
folky
Word definitions for folky in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context music informal English) Having the character of folk music
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"characteristic of the common people," 1914, from folk + -y (2). Old English had folcisc "popular, secular, common."
Usage examples of folky.
I could see that Jenny was sifting these out in favour of more upper-class items, with the folky bare-wood sideboards, velvet dwarf thrones, with its something-I-picked-up here and its got-it-for-thirty-bob there: tastefully timeless.
Granted, they were cheap Cyndi Lauper imitations, but they were also colorful, borderline folky, and rather cute.