saditty, hincty + dicty

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:46:04 -0400, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:

>Is there any record of "dincty"/"dinkty"?

Here's the only one I can find:

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"Atlantic Records: The Introduction" by Darius James, in _The KGB Bar
Nonfiction Reader_ (2004), pp. 183-4
[quoting Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun]
Now Monte Kaye was very hip. Very cool. He would never listen to Mezz
Mezzrow and the type of black life he was talking about. It was not the
kind of black life Monte was interested in. He was interested in the
dincty (yes, you read correctly, Ahmet Ertegun used the word _dincty_),
elegant and very sophisticated black life.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/156025601X/
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The author seems to have found this odd, so it might just have been
Ertegun's idiosyncratic blending of "dicty" and "hincty".



--Ben Zimmer