| 单词 | hoity-toity |
| 释义 | hoity-toity (once / 46903 pages) adj Someone who's hoity-toity is pretentious and snooty. If you speak to someone in a hoity-toity accent, they are going to assume that you're a snob. Your hoity-toity aunt might refuse to eat lunch in your favorite diner, insisting on someplace fancier, and a hoity-toity salesman might make you feel like you don't belong in an expensive department store with your old jeans and worn sneakers. The adjective hoity-toity started out meaning "riotous behavior" in the 1660s. By the late 1800s it had gained its modern meaning, probably out of similarity to the word "haughty." WORD FAMILYhoity-toity USAGE EXAMPLESBilly Bob Thornton stars as a washed-up lawyer who begrudgingly takes on a case that pits him against his old hoity-toity law firm. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) The new marketing campaign will not “suddenly get all hoity-toity and alienate our core drinkers,” Mr. McConaughey said. New York Times(Jul 31, 2016) First, Brinkley is the scruffy country lad denied entrance to the hoity-toity Johns Hopkins medical school. Los Angeles Times(Jul 07, 2016) adj affectedly genteel Syn grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, la-di-da pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction |
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