hincty
adjEtymology Unknown.
1
Snobbish; conceited.
- “Hincty, thatʼs why. Comes from handling money all day. You notice that? How people who handle money for a living get stuck-up? Like it was theirs instead of yours?”1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 19:
- “Crunch beat up some yellow hincty boy who was playing ball on King Street & took a fine leather belt off him.”1982, Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo, St. Martin's Press, page 40: