hoity-toity

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English - English
pompous, self-important and snobbish
{s} arrogant, snobbish, disdainful, haughty; giddy; featherbrained
hoitytoity
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

    Hyphenation

    hoi·ty-toi·ty

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    () From the archaic verb hoit (“to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously”)
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