Conceity

a. Chiefly Sc. [see -Y.] Full of conceit: † ingenious, witty, fantastic (obs.); abounding in conceits, or in self-conceit; fussy (U.S. dial.).

1606.  Birnie, Kirk-buriall, vi. According to the conceaty resolution of Theodore, who being by the tyrant Lysimachus minassed with the gibbet, answered that his own minzeons only had it to feare and not he, to whom all was one, whether to putrifie aboue, or vpon, or within the earth.

1675.  J. Durham, Ten Commandm., To Rdr. D ij a. Time … taken … to over-costly, curious, vain, and conceaty dressing, and decking, of the body.

1714.  G. Lockhart, Mem. Scot. (ed. 2), 99. David, E.—— of L——n, in the Beginning of his Life, was so vain and conceity, that he became the Jest of all sober Men.

1719.  Ramsay, Answer, III., 57, in Poems (1760), 111.

1746.  R. Erskine, Serm., cxxxiii., in Serm. & Pract. Wks. (1796), VIII. 272. Self-conceit is self-deceit; and such a conceity person was not fit for God’s table.

1808.  Mrs. E. Hamilton, Cott. Glenburnie, 169. The gudeman indeed is a wee conceity like yoursel’.

1822.  Galt, Steam-boat, xvi. 339. He’s no without a share of common sense, though aiblins a wee conceity of himsel.

1842.  Lincoln, Lett., 27 Aug., in Writings (1905) I. 290. Nobody but a Whig could make such a conceity dunce of himself.

1868.  J. H. Stirling, in N. Brit. Rev., XLIX. Dec., 366. It [Browning’s ‘In a Gondola’] is soft and boneless somehow, too long and loose, and, so to speak, conceity.

1873.  W. Carleton, Over the Hill to the Poor-House, in Farm ballads, 55.

1895.  Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, 262. For ‘brat’ is but the Scots word for apron, and such a brisk conceity saying was like that very spirited lady, Anne Keith.

1916.  Dialect Notes (U.S.) IV. v. 337. conceity, adj. Over-particular. ‘She’s so conceity about her victuals that she’s likely to go hungry.’

1924.  Songs & Ball. Maine Lumberjacks, 57.