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Word: ootchmagootch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...aged tramp as memorable as a well-aimed mule's kick. E. G. Marshall is excellent as Miss de Bergh's second husband, and the writers are to be congratulated for daring to suggest in a movie that a successful marriage need not be an eternity of ootchmagootch between a pair of raving beauties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

These reasonably funny entanglements with the adolescents would be a lot funnier if the emboldened boy had made love like a movie star-and that in turn would have afforded one of the few scenes in history in which cinematic ootchmagootch* was unquestionably authentic. Mr. Boyer makes an artist's façade and unspoken opinions reasonable on the screen, Miss Dunne ought to be able to make quite a go of politics. Mr. Coburn, as always, must be described as "dependable." Too often that adjective compares unfavorably with a blunt instrument. In his case, however, it covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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