diggety
Used to express excitement, surprise, or similar strong emotionUsed to express excitement, surprise, or similar strong emotion.
Meaning
2 senses(informal)Used to express excitement, surprise, or similar strong emotion.
hot diggety dog
(informal, uncommon)Imitative of rapid movement or commotion.
Origin
Fanciful extension of another lexical item, possibly hot dog (interjection) or dig + -ety,Fanciful extension of another lexical item, possibly hot dog (interjection) or dig + -ety, an expressive suffix used to extend monosyllabic words. It is unclear whether this word or the whole phrase hot diggety dog came first. Compare African American Vernacular English dig. Attested since the end of the nineteenth century.
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