BIGGITY Definition & Meaning

biggity

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[ big-i-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

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Origin of biggity¹

First recorded in 1875–80; big ¹ + -ity suffix of uncertain origin, perhaps containing -y ¹; uppity

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You can’t “talk biggity to white folks,” she recalled her grandmother saying.

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‘Mr. Singer would tell you. He a truly kind white man and he not a bit biggity.’

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‘He needn’t act biggity with me.’

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It just goes to show yuh that no matter how biggity a nigguh gits, the white folks can always cut him down.

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I was plenty biggity and liked to cut a step.

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