hoity-toity
/hɔɪtɪˈtɔɪti
/adjective
Haughty or snobbish: a hoity-toity little madam...
- ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
- I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob!
- ‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle.
Origin
Mid 17th century (as noun in the sense 'boisterous or silly behaviour', then as adjective meaning 'lively and playful'): from obsolete hoit 'indulge in riotous mirth', of unknown origin.
- crown sheet
- crown shell
- Crown side
- Crown solicitor
- crown sparrow
- crown tax
- crown tile
- crown tree
- crown tuber
- crown valve
- crown vetch
- crown-wearing
- crown wheel
- Crown witness
- crownwork
- crow-pheasant
- crow quill
- crow's ash
- crow's foot
- crowsfoot spanner
- crow's nest
- crow-stepped
- crow steps
- croze
- Crozet Islands