Translation - English-Italian - Hootchie-cootchie man

Hi Xini,

I'm not sure it's really translatable.

As you said, "hootch" is an alcoholic beverage. It is made by North American indians from a mixture of fermented dough and sugar. Probably by the Alaskan Hootchino tribe. It has become a slang word meaning any strong alcoholic drink.

I can't find any references to "cootchie" though. It's probably used to just to make a rhyme with "hootchie".

Lots of blues songs are about alcoholism so I guess Muddy Waters' song title is in this vein too.

I think "sborgnone" might be a good try. I'll submit it and we can ask Kafetzou and IanMegill what they think, since they are both North Americains.

Bises
Tantine

sbornione - drunkard.
Probably the second part "cootchie" means what kind of drunkard. Maybe it has the meaning of excessive or unrestrained.

I don't think it's translatable. Though "hootch" is alcohol, the translation isn't precise enough without the second word "cootchie".

Sborgnone? Maybe it is "sbornione", as anealin said.. but I think it is not translatable too

"Sborgnone" has no meaning in italian and no dictionary reports it. maybe it is a dialectal word

Hi


Hehe, It was a spelling error then. I think I wrote it as in Corsican.

But I do like "ubriacone". It's almost the same word in Corsican "u briacone" here the "u" is a definitive article "the"

Bises
Tantine