hippity-hop

Meanings

Adjective

• Moving by hopping, having an uneven gait.
• Proceeding through uneven stages.

Adverb

• Unevenly, with a hopping gait.

Noun

• A hop

Verb

• to hop.

Origin

• Compound of *hippity + hop, in turn from hip + --ety. Attested since the middle nineteenth century, with hippity-hoppity appearing somewhat earlier.