different between biggety vs biggity

English

Adjective

biggety (comparative more biggety, superlative most biggety)

1. Alternative form of biggity

English

Alternative forms

• biggety

Etymology

Apparently from big +? -y, a suffix used to form adjectives meaning “having the quality of”, with an arbitrary middle syllable; compare uppity. Alternately, perhaps from big +? -ety, a suffix used to extend monosyllabic words; compare hot diggety, hippity-hop. Attested in the Southern United States since the late nineteenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b???ti/

Adjective

biggity (comparative more biggity, superlative most biggity)

1. (US, African-American Vernacular) Conceited, uppity.
   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society 2016, p. 15:

     “Aint you talking biggity. I bet you better not let your grandmammy hear you talking like that.”

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:arrogant

References

• biggity at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “biggity, adj. (and adv.).”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2008