Meaning hoity-toity
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hoity-toityalso hoity toity, 1660s, "riotous behavior," from earlier highty tighty "frolicsome, flighty," perhaps an alteration and reduplication of dialectal hoyting "acting the hoyden, [..]
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hoity-toity(adj) affectedly genteel
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hoity-toity(1) Hoity-toity spirits means high spirits, extremely elated and flighty. Selden, in his Table Talk, says: “In Queen Elizabeth’s time gravity and state were kept up … but in [..]
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