Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitchy
Literary usage of Hitchy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"The square bit of wood is called 'hitchy-dabber.' Hogger. Hose-pipe. Also, the
following stocking-arrangement. The coal-hewer formerly wore his stockings ..."
2. Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index by Frederick Winthrop Faxon, Mary Estella Bates, Anne C. Sutherland (1917)
"See hitchy-koo. Golden, John L., dramatist. See Cheer up. ... hitchy-koo, revue
by G. MacDonough and ER Goetz. il. Dram. Mir. 77: Je. 16, '17, 7(1). ..."
3. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"hitchy-bay. The game of Hopscotch. Properly speaking, ' hitchy-bays' are the
courts marked out. The square bit of wood is called 'hitchy-dabber. ..."
4. A List of Words and Phrases in Every-day Use by the Natives of Hetton-le by Francis Milnes Temple Palgrave (1896)
"The square bit of wood is called 'hitchy-dabber.' Hogger. Hose-pipe. Also, the
following stocking-arrangement. The coal-hewer formerly wore his stockings ..."
5. In the Garret by Carl Van Vechten (1920)
"... Aggie is singing: " Oh ev'ry evening hear him sing, It's the cutest little
thing, Got the cutest little swing, hitchy Koo, hitchy Koo, hitchy Koo . ..."
6. Edwin Booth by Charles Townsend Copeland (1901)
"... themselves to the thought, the verse degenerates into a queer variety of hitchy
prose." In an interesting and much talked of Shakespearian 'l revival? ..."
7. Tell England: A Study in a Generation by Ernest Raymond (1922)
""hitchy- koo, hitchy-koo, hitchy-koo." Major Hardy was equal to any of them.
He was the Master of the Revels. He had a big space cleared at one end of the ..."
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