hot ziggety

English

Alternative forms

• hot ziggity

Interjection

hot ziggety

1. An expression of surprise or excitement
   • 2004, Eleanor Sullivan, Fifty Best Mysteries:

     Would you like the assignment?" Jacqueline raised her limpid blue eyes. "Would I like it?" she breathed. "Hot ziggety damn!" Houston sat back with a start.

   • 1991, Celestine Sibley, Ah, sweet mystery:

     There was all that "longing, seeking, striving, waiting, yearning, the idle hopes, the joys and tears," which, God knows, Kate had personally experienced. Hot ziggety, thought Kate gleefully.

   • 1947, Bill Mauldin, Back home:

     "Hot ziggety! A real one at last!"