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hincty, a. U.S. slang.|ˈhɪŋktɪ|
Also hinkty.
[Origin unknown.]
Conceited, snobbish, stuck-up.
Connection with clipped forms of ‘handkerchief-head’ (= an Uncle Tom Negro) has been suggested but the phonetic development is incapable of demonstration.
1924in W. C. Handy Treasury of Blues (1949) 144 We'll I am hinkty and I'm low down too. 1936Esquire (Chicago) May 192/3 ‘She couldn't be mixed up in no murder trial. She's too respectable.’ ‘A hinkty hussy!’ said Sling. 1941Examiner (San Francisco) 20 July PR 2 Jack, it ain't like me to be hincty so I'll be there with my boots laced tall. 1948Capitol News from Hollywood Jan. 12/1 Patrons who dropped into the hincty, ultra-ultra Circus room of Santa Monica's lavish Hotel Ambassador. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 86 Wetting their eyebrows with hincty fingertip. 1969C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol vi. 72 All those hincty bitches fell on those whitey-babies like they was sugar candy.
▸ orig. in African-American usage. Wary, worried, suspicious. Also occas.: unreliable (cf. hinky adj. 2).
1929T. Gordon Born to Be xiii. 135, I was kinda hinkty and thought to myself, a fine, deceited lot, getting ready to can me and not telling me anything about it until the time came. 1932Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/4 Hinkty, suspicious. 1960S. Martinelli Let. 15 Dec. in C. Bukowski & S. Martinelli Beerspit Night & Cursing (2001) 119, I get a bit hincty as Stanley Gould calls it & don't like being out in the gloaming..so in I went. 1972B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 107 Hincty, paranoid, afraid of being arrested or beaten. ‘Stop being so hincty; we haven't had Alice Blue clean up our act in weeks.’ 2003New Yorker 22 Dec. 135/2 My car was acting hincty, so I had put it in the Ridge Street garage. |