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hitty-missy, adv. (a.)|ˈhɪtɪ ˈmɪsɪ|
Also 6–7 hittie-missie, hit-I misse-I.
[app. from hit he, miss he, or hit I, miss I: cf. willy-nilly.]
Hit or miss: see hit v. 22; at random, at haphazard.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 47 b, Young boyes..which showte in the open and plaine feldes at all aventures hittie missie. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 195 The hand of prince Meleager Plaid hittiemissie. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxvii. (1612) 319 Howbeit hit-I-misse-I, when was Speculation weake. 1611Cotgr., Tombant levant, well or ill, hittie missie; here or there, one way or other. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 238 Hittee Missee, happy go lucky, as the blind Man kill'd the Crow. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Hitty-missy, at random; hit or miss. 1897F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LXIV. 357/3.
B. adj. Random, haphazard.
1885Pall Mall G. 28 May 3 This hitty-missy, ready-go-lucky fashion. 1894Stead If Christ came to Chicago 338 The hitty-missy, hugger-mugger fashion. |