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▪ I. ˈhoppity1
[f. hop v.1]
Another name for halma.
1894L. B. Sperry Confid. Talks with Yng. Men xvii. 164 Games of all sorts, base-ball, foot-ball,..checkers, hoppity. 1895Montgomery Ward Catal. 235/1 The Game of ‘Hopity’..is a game of skill... The particular feature of the game is the popular jumping move, pieces being allowed to jump over friend and foe alike to reach the opposite side of the board. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 222 Halma or hoppity was introduced about 1890.
▪ II. hoppity2|ˈhɒpɪtɪ|
Also -ety.
A fanciful extension of hop v.1, used adverbially or as adj., often repeated or with the word hop to suggest a hopping or hobbling movement. Cf. hippety.
1825,1886[see hippety]. 1924A. A. Milne When we were very Young 60 Christopher Robin goes Hoppity, hoppity, Hoppity, hoppity, hop. 1936W. de la Mare Wind blows Over 46 William had been even more lively and hoppity than usual. 1943F. Thompson Candleford Green viii. 125 A tame thrush which he had found in the fields with a broken wing and brought home..would follow him round the garden, hoppity-hop. 1963Times 10 May 5/3 Two no-balls from Greenhough, whose run up, like Christopher Robin, goes hoppity hoppity. |