About The Word Hoity-toity
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Hoity-toity
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What's The Definition Of Hoity-toity?
[adj] affectedly genteel
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hoity-toity: grandiose | hifalutin | highfalutin | highfaluting | la-di-da | pretentious Related Terms | Find terms related to Hoity-toity: arrogance | arrogant | arrogantness | assumption of superiority | big | condescendence | condescending | condescension | dizzy | domineering | domineeringness | featherbrained | flighty | frivolous | giddy | harebrained | haughtiness | haughty | haughty airs | hauteur | high horse | high-faluting | high-flown | high-headed | high-nosed | hoity-toitiness | loftiness | lofty | Olympian detachment | Olympian loftiness | overbearing | overbearing pride | overbearingness | overweening pride | patronization | patronizing | patronizing attitude | pride | proud | proudness | purse-pride | purse-proud | rattlebrained | scatterbrained | side | silly | skittish | stiff-necked pride | stuck-up | superbia | superior | toploftiness | toplofty | uppish | uppishness | uppity | uppityness | upstage See Also | Hoity-toity In Webster's Dictionary \Hoi"ty-toi`ty\, a. [From {Hoit}.]
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? --Congreve.
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