Meanings
comparative more hippity · superlative most hippity
- informalUnevenly; by hopping.
Sammy Squirrel slept inside the tortoise's house until nightfall and then he came out and, skippity-hippity, away he went to Owl's Barn.
1955, Time & Tide, volume 36, page 15821 more example
“W’at’ll de rab’its do w’en de pile am burnin’?” ¶ “Dey’ll jes hippity, skippity, an’ git hout, an’ now min’ I w’at tell yer,” replied the old negro.
1889, Carlisle B. Holding, Her Ben: A Tale of Royal Resolves, page 159
Origin
Fanciful extension hip, a regional variant of hop, with the expressive suffix -ity. Attested since the nineteenth century.
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