单词 | hincty |
释义 | hinctyadj. U.S. slang. Conceited, snobbish, stuck-up. Connection with clipped forms of ‘handkerchief-head’ (= an ‘Uncle Tom’) has been suggested but the phonetic development is incapable of demonstration. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 1924 in W. C. Handy Treasury of Blues (1949) 144 We'll I am hinkty and I'm low down too. 1936 Esquire May 192/3 ‘She couldn't be mixed up in no murder trial. She's too respectable.’ ‘A hinkty hussy!’ said Sling. 1941 Examiner (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. 1948 Capitol News from Hollywood Jan. 12/1 Patrons who dropped into the hincty, ultra-ultra Circus room of Santa Monica's lavish Hotel Ambassador. 1957 J. Kerouac On the Road i. xiii. 86 Wetting their eyebrows with hincty fingertip. 1969 C. Himes Blind Man with Pistol vi. 72 All those hincty bitches fell on those whitey-babies like they was sugar candy. Draft additions September 2006 Originally in African-American usage. Wary, worried, suspicious. Also occasionally: unreliable (cf. hinky adj. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > lack of confidence, distrust, suspicion > [adjective] ortrowOE truthlessa1200 untristc1374 mistrusty?a1425 overtrowinga1425 diffidenta1460 in suspicion1471 suspicionous1474 suspectious1521 mistrustful1529 surmising1535 distrusting1549 trustless?1550 mistrusting1552 misgiving1567 suspectfula1586 misdoubtful1596 distrustfula1600 shy1600 misdoubting1601 scrupulous1608 jealousa1616 umbratiousa1639 inconfident1667 suspecting1691 unconfiding1820 untrusting1861 defiant1872 leery1896 suspicionful1911 hincty1929 the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > worry > [adjective] troubleda1325 troublyc1340 troublec1374 worried1559 betoiled1622 aerumnous1658 fidgety1736 fretful1737 fretted1756 tanglesome1823 awful1865 hincty1929 toey1930 to worry (oneself), be worried, sick1952 noodgy1969 1929 T. 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. 1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/4 Hinkty, suspicious. 1960 S. 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. 1972 B. 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.’ 2003 New Yorker 22 Dec. 135/2 My car was acting hincty, so I had put it in the Ridge Street garage. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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