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hippity-hoppity en · ADV
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of hippity-hop.
Just imagine Mr. Bird, with his poor sciatic leg, standing at the head of State Street with a bucket of water in one hand and a little engine in the other, and see him, when the telegraph strikes an alarm, starting off with all his might, hippity, hoppity, almost two miles an hour, for a fire which may be one or five miles away !
1873, Joseph W. Bird, Protection Against Fire, and the Best Means of Putting Out Fires in Cities, Towns, and Villages, page 70:
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