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hippity-hoppity

hippity-hoppity is the alternative form of hippity-hop.

Meaning of hippity-hop

Adverb

hippity-hop (not comparable)

  1. (childish) Unevenly, with a hopping gait.
    • So he mounted the horse, which went hippity-hop, hippity-hop.1857, John Edward Taylor, “The Wild Man”, in The Fairy Ring: A Collection of Tales and Traditions, Translated from the German of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, page 101

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Forms of hippity-hoppity

comparativemore hippity-hoppity
superlativemost hippity-hoppity
alternative formhippity hoppity

Questions about hippity-hoppity

What is hippity-hoppity the alternative form of?
Hippity-hoppity is the alternative form of hippity-hop.

Words near hippity-hoppity in the dictionary

  1. hippish
  2. hippity
  3. hippity hoppity
  4. hippity hoppity get off my property
  5. hippity-hop
  6. hippity-hoppity
  7. hippity-hops
  8. Hipple
  9. Hippler
  10. Hipplers
  11. Hipples

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