Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggety dog

[GeneD]

There is a final song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHhheCf0G1I) in the Mickey Mouse cartoon which I don't quite understand. To be precise, it's the word "hot dog" that causes the trouble. Why "hot dog"? Does it have some other meaning except this one: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/hot-dog? And does "diggety" mean something? Or is it something like "pa-pa-pa" or "ta-ta-ta" (that is, meaningless sounds sometimes used in songs in order to get into the rhythm)?

 

[GeneD]

It's getting clearer, I think. I didn't know the idiom "hot diggety" and this meaning of "hot dog": https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/Hot+diggety!

This expression sounds a little childish to me, I don't know why. Do adults say this (or yell it )? Say, when their football team has won, or maybe in other cases...

 

[Tdol]

I don't use it- it sounds a bit twee to me.

 

[GeneD]

I've found a nice song - "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" performed by Perry Como (https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/perrycomo/hotdiggitydogziggityboom.html) - and I think I won't forget the idiom from now on.

Could you explain why it sounds twee to you?

 

[GoesStation]

It's an expression that had a vogue a long time ago. Now it sounds like something nobody has said for a very long time.

 

[emsr2d2]

"had a vogue" is clearly OK in AmE but it doesn't work in BrE. We would say that the expression was "in vogue".

 

[SoothingDave]

I would say "was in vogue," too.

 

[GoesStation]

Had a vogue may be my own invention. In vogue is natural.

 

[Tdol]

Could you explain why it sounds twee to you?

GoesStation is right- it sounds dated.