When I told her how we spell it, she said that perhaps it had a "d" sound rather than the "t" sound we gave it. I said, "I'll look up briggidy and briggedy, and other possible spellings."
I went to Google and typed in the words. None of those had any reference, but I typed in "definition of briggety"and voila, there it was! I should have done that the first time rather than Googling the individual words.
In contemplating writing this, I returned to my original article (CLICK HERE to see BRIGGITY) and I saw a comment that had been posted by a fellow BLOGGER named "Miracle Mommy" and she had also been trying to find out about the word and she happened on my article on Google Blogger.
I sent an e-mail to her to let her know where to find the information.
Briggity is a word used in Appalachia and can be found in the Dictionary Of American Regional English and it does mean "too big for one's britches".
3 comments:
Yeah, I've seen you briggity! ML
I was googling this word and came across your blog post. My family used this word, especially my grandparents (in Appalachia of course). I always understood it to mean "rambunctious" or "over-excited."
I grew up with "briggety" (or however you spell it), but realized all of a sudden one day I hadn't heard anybody outside of my hometown ever use the word and had also never seen it in print.I called a friend to ask if she'd heard or seen it outside of our WV home, and she hadn't either.
It's hard for me to pin down a perfect meaning, but "too big for one's britches" comes close. I would also add that "briggety" also has connotations of being bossy. For some reason, I have it in my head that it refers to girls more than boys and children more than adults.
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