diggity
English
editEtymology
editSee diggety, analyzable as dig + -ity, a suffix used to extend monosyllabic words.
Adverb
editdiggity (comparative more diggity, superlative most diggity)
- Alternative form of diggety
Interjection
editdiggity
- Alternative form of diggety
Noun
editdiggity (uncountable)
- An expletive or partially reduplicative form used in word games or idioms.
- no diggity (“no doubt”)
- bomb diggity (“excellent, the bomb”)
- 1897, Kate Douglas Wiggin, “Penelope’s Progress”, in The Atlantic Monthly, page 702:
- We afterwards learned that this is spelled Dalgety, but it is considered rather vulgar, in Scotland, to pronounce the names of persons and places as they are written. When, therefore, I allude to the cook, which shall be as seldom as possible, I shall speak of her as Miss Diggety-Dalgety.
- 1996, Eileen Barish, Doin’ Texas with your Pooch[1]:
- Let your hot diggity dog cool his tootsies on this picturesque creekside trail where nature is the name of the game.
References
edit- “diggity”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.