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Hoity-toity   Listen
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Hoity-toity  adj.  Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt. "Hoity-toity! What have I to do with dreams?"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Hoity-toity!" said the easy-going grandmother, sitting down to her task, for she perceived some wholesome discipline was necessary. "You can't talk that way, Bess. You got to go to your work. We ain't got money to keep you in idleness, and land knows where you'd get another place as good's ...
— The Girl from Montana • Grace Livingston Hill

... the hoity-toity and rollicking sort, bordering in parts very nearly on nonsense, and generally impertinent. It reached Mr. Larkin as he sat at breakfast with his friend, ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... Stories,—and their Lordships' conversation turning on Spectres and Apparitions, the vulgar notions of which they were deriding, the terrible tale of the Bloody Head was brought up, and then dismissed as the idle fancy of a Hoity-toity Tirewoman. But after Kilmarnock had engaged in the Rebellion, and Lord Galloway was told of it, he instantly recollected this Story, and said, "I will wager a dozen Magnums of Claret, and my best Silver-laced Justaucorps, that my Lord Kilmarnock ...
— The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 • George Augustus Sala



Words linked to "Hoity-toity" :   grandiose, highfaluting, pretentious



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