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Uppity vs Biggity - What's the difference?

uppity | biggity |

As adjectives the difference between uppity and biggity

is that uppity is presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty while biggity is (african american vernacular english) conceited, uppity.

uppity

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
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    Usage notes

    * Be careful about using this in interracial situations: White US Americans used this to describe black people whom they considered not submissive and subservient enough.

    biggity

    English

    Alternative forms

    * biggety

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (African American Vernacular English) Conceited, uppity.
  • * 1883 , , Life on the Mississippi , ch. 58:
    • [T]he captains were very independent and airy—pretty ‘biggity ,’ as Uncle Remus would say.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind The Cedars , ch. 33:
    • "Oh, Jeff Wain!" returned the countryman slightingly; "yas, I knows 'im, an' don' know no good of 'im. One er dese yer biggity , braggin' niggers—talks lack he own de whole county."

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