hincty

1. slang Strange or suspicious. Why is everyone ignoring me today? Is something hincty going on?

2. slang Aloof or conceited. Jen is usually warm and friendly—I don't know why she was acting so hincty today.

3. slang Nervous or uneasy. Sam's acting so hincty because he thinks you don't like him.

hincty

(ˈhɪŋkti)

mod. snobbish; fussy; aloof. (Black.) Some of those people are so hincty!

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Or the vain and hincty pinchnose worrying about his coat and the ivory buttons on his waistcoat.

Golden gray and the talking book: identity as a site of artful construction in Toni Morrison's Jazz

In fact, even the successful African Americans he believes are intermingled in the Harlem subway crowds-"the doctors, the preachers, some lawyers"--he characterizes as likely" 'hincty' and 'dicty' "--that is, snobbish folk who put on airs to remove themselves from the black public that scrapes to make a living in a white-dominated world (61).

Reclaiming the Frontier: Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian

It begins the oral quality of the prose, a quality continued throughout by references to the reader and by numerous colloquial words and expressions, such as "Good luck and let me know" (5), "hincty" (143), and "quiet as it's kept" (17).(10) It also suggests at least two ways of perceiving the narrator's activity.