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单词 hincty
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hinctyadj.

/ˈhɪŋkti/
Forms: Also hinkty.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
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 192/3She 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).
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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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