Hoochie Coochie

The hoochie coochie was a sexually provocative belly dance that originated at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876. It became wildly popular during and after the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. Described by the New York Journal in 1893 as "Neither dancing of the head nor the feet", it was a belly dance performed by women of, or presented as having, an Eastern European gypsy heritage, often as part of travelling "sideshows". Gooch, goochie or gootchie was apparently already a term in the American South for a woman's vagina, and hoochie coochie has been suggested as referring directly to sex.

Since the dance was performed by women, a "goochie man", or "hoochie coochie man", either watched them or ran the show. Alternatively, from the directly sexual meaning of goochie goochie, he was successful with women. This inspired the classic blues song "Hoochie Coochie Man", written by Willie Dixon for Muddy Waters, and covered by numerous musicians since. The dance was still popular at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: the World's Fair of 1904, but had all but disappeared by the Second World War; the song was therefore harking back to an earlier "golden" era.

Coochie is spanish for vigina and is considered vulgar. Cuchi means pig, Cuchi Cuchi Coo would be called a child "a little piggie". While a Cuchi Coochie would be an espically dirty whore person as calling a whore a pig reffers to being infected with gonorrhea, syphilis or similiar see Quartier Pigalle pig alley.