Meaning of HOITY-TOITY
| Pronunciation: | | 'hoytee'toytee
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| | Definition: | | [adj] affectedly genteel |
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| | Synonyms: | | grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, la-di-da, pretentious |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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