biggity

adjective

big·​gi·​ty ˈbi-gə-tē 

variants or biggety

Southern US, disparaging + informal

: boldly confident or boastful

trying to act biggity

… zealous parents who popped their children for getting too "biggity" because they feared there was no point in nourishing false dreams.

—Isabel Wilkerson

Word History

Etymology

big + -ity, variant of -ety (as in persnickety)

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above