And if "doney" lacks appeal, you can sing, "Ride around them dogies, ride around 'em slow," which also makes good sense.

Q, thanks for the tip on the "big party" sense. As we know, one "throws" a big party and one "throws" the hoolihan. Connection? Beats me!

Novelist Kathleen Ann Goonan spoke for many in "Mississippi Blues"   (1997): "Oh, the music that bubbled through me.... What's a dan? What's a hoolihan? And where the hell was Montana? I didn't care."