rootin’-tootin’
adjective/ˌruːtɪn ˈtuːtɪn/
/ˌruːtɪn ˈtuːtɪn/
[only before noun] (North American English, informal)- enthusiastic, cheerful and livelyWord Originlate 19th cent.: reduplication of rooting in the sense ‘inquisitive’, an early dialect sense of the compound.
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