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🐰 A small hop 🐇 In a bouncy way
hippity

hippity

5 9.3
A small quick jump like a child's hop
  • noun
  • Informal
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  • With each hippity hop, the little rabbit chased after its friend across the field.
  • hippity-hop

Snipes me right, you're doing a little hippity hop.

Examples

  • "But the faster he ran across the ground, the faster she went, hippity hop hippity hop..."

    Red Dust (1932)

  • If rabbits made music, it would be called hippity-hoppity.

    Uncle Drew (2018)

  • "But the faster he ran across the ground, the faster she went, hippity hop hippity hop..."

    Red Dust (1932)

  • It would seem there is another player in this game, someone who's hippity-hopped his way through all of your stories.

    Hoodwinked! (2005)

  • Snowshoe Hare hippity-hopped to Barnaby's burrow.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • There was a sort of hippity-hoppity bunny rabbit quality to Pan's erratic melody, but also a roaming goatish quality, stubborn, rough, and lean.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The children laughed as they hippity hopped from one end of the yard to the other.

  • She made a happy hippity hop while playing in the park during sunny days.

Synonyms

hoppity
vshippity
  • Informal
4 7.7

A small quick jump someone makes when they feel playful

is more childlike and clearly playful rather than only light

Idioms

hippity hoppity
  • Baby Talk
1 9.5

Moving with quick, bouncy jumps like a child or small animal

How Big

leap
107 1.0
to bound
19 4.2
to jump
∞ 1.0
skip
34 1.0
hippity
  • Informal
5 9.3

Surface Forms

hippity singular
hippities plural

Etymology

Hippity likely comes from the playful phrase hippity-hop, which imitates the sound of 'small jumps' and is like the everyday word hop. So, a hippity is a little, quick jump.