hoity
5
9.9
- adjective
- /ˈhɔɪti/
:
pretencioso
- They're going to have this big fundraiser party-thing on Friday and all the young, hoity-toity couples are going to come.
- hoity-toity Westminster
In general, one should avoid reaching for a hoity toity word to replace a humbler synonym.
- In general, one should avoid reaching for a hoity toity word to replace a humbler synonym.
- Well, it could be you're opening yourself up to not to get too sort of hoity toity with it.
- And the ones that did were kind of, you know, the hoity toity branches, right?
- We think of it as being this, you know, ski resort town that's very hoity toity and movie stars, etcetera.
- It's possible that a poor person could say that the rich is a hoity toity upper class snob.
Examples
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Hoity-toity belongs to an age gone by.
Blog text (30) -
"Honey, I don't know what to say to your hoity-toity friends."
Fiction book (2001) -
A little hoity-toity for you?
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I know, I know, we sound so hoity-toity.
Blog text (23) -
And the ones that did were kind of, you know, the hoity toity branches, right?
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The hoity-toity art crowd had begun to bid up the prices on his work in a slow-boiling round of speculation.
Fiction book (1997) -
They have a reputation of being kind of hoity toity elitist.
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We think of it as being this, you know, ski resort town that's very hoity toity and movie stars, etcetera.
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We lived in a hoity-toity neighborhood in Ottawa for a couple of years, and stroller and baby-gear snobbery is everywhere.
Blog text (1) -
I find her attitude quite hoity as if she's better than everyone else.
Synonyms
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
20
8.2
Acting as if you are better than other people
14
8.1
Acting proud and looking down on other people
8
6.1
Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people
5
9.5
Being too proud and acting as if you are better than other people
5
8.7
Acting as if morally better than other people
4
8.6
Claiming to be more important or successful than you are
2
7.0
To act very confident and proud to get attention
1
8.4
Being too proud and too sure of yourself so you ignore advice and make bad decisions
1
8.0
Acting very proud and treating others as unimportant
Acting like you are better than other people
Showing off and acting more important than others
Acting more confident and important than you really are
Antonyms
How Snobbish
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word hoity comes from the playful phrase hoity-toity, a repeating sound people used to make fun of showy behavior. That's why hoity means 'proud' or 'snobbish'.