hippity-hop

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A hop childish
  2. hip-hop (music) humorous,uncountable
    — I'm not much into teh hippity-hop like teh kids.
动词 v.
  1. to hop. childish
形容词 adj.
  1. Moving by hopping, having an uneven gait. childish
    — There must be hundreds of them killed every summer day - and, it's no wonder when one observes the erratic, hippity-hop way they try to cross the road.
  2. Proceeding through uneven stages. figuratively
    — In 1927, when United Air Lines began service over a hippity-hop route between San Francisco and Chicago, Cheyenne again rather than Denver was picked as a stop.
副词 adv.
  1. Unevenly, with a hopping gait. childish,not-comparable
    — So he mounted the horse, which went hippity-hop, hippity-hop.

词形变化

more hippity-hop comparative most hippity-hop superlative hippety-hop alternative hippity-hoppity alternative hippety-hop alternative hippity-hoppity alternative hippity-hops plural hippety-hop alternative hippity-hoppity alternative hippity-hops present,singular,third-person hippity-hopping participle,present hippity-hopped participle,past hippity-hopped past hippety-hop alternative hippity-hoppity alternative hippety-hop alternative hippity-hoppity alternative

词源

Compound of hippity + hop, in turn from hip (a regional variant of hop) + -ety. Attested since the middle nineteenth century, with hippity-hoppity appearing somewhat earlier.
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