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Hoity-toity   /hˈɔɪti-tˈɔɪti/   Listen
Hoity-toity

adjective
1.
Affectedly genteel.  Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, la-di-da.





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"Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books



... and then to stretch her neck, and look out with sudden curiosity, to see what was going on at the other end of the street; but if by chance any idle vagabond dog came by, and offered to be uncivil—hoity-toity!—how she would bristle up, and growl, and spit, and strike out her paws! she was as indignant as ever was an ancient and ugly spinster, on the approach ...
— Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists • Washington Irving


Words linked to "Hoity-toity" :   highfaluting, pretentious, grandiose, la-di-da, highfalutin, hifalutin


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