hoity-toity
5
9.5
- adjective
- /ˈhɔɪti ˈtɔɪti/
- Informal
:
pretencioso
- The hoity-toity art crowd had begun to bid up the prices on his work in a slow-boiling round of speculation.
- getting all hoity-toity
- too hoity-toity
And the ones that did were kind of, you know, the hoity toity branches, right?
- And the ones that did were kind of, you know, the hoity toity branches, right?
- It's possible that a poor person could say that the rich is a hoity toity upper class snob.
- We think of it as being this, you know, ski resort town that's very hoity toity and movie stars, etcetera.
Examples
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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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You're so hoity-toity all of a sudden.
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I know, I know, we sound so hoity-toity.
Blog text (23) -
"Honey, I don't know what to say to your hoity-toity friends."
Fiction book (2001) -
Yeah, it's just Greg's parents are so hoity-toity.
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But if you're too hoity-toity, you can always stay out here and sizzle.
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They have a reputation of being kind of hoity toity elitist.
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They're going to have this big fundraiser party-thing on Friday and all the young, hoity-toity couples are going to come.
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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) -
We decided to avoid that restaurant because it attracts a hoity-toity crowd that looks down on others.
Synonyms
74
7.3
Trying to seem more important or clever than you really are
57
5.8
Acting more important and formal than necessary
27
7.5
Too big and showy in a way that tries to seem more important than it is
22
7.5
A person who thinks they are better than other people
16
7.4
Acting as if you are better than other people
13
5.8
Acting as if you are better than other people
5
9.9
Someone who acts proud and shows they feel better than others
4
9.3
Behaving or speaking in a fancy way to seem more important
1
9.9
Very fancy in a way that shows you think you are better than others
1
9.6
Looking expensive or stylish in a showy, joking way
Showing off and acting more important than others
Acting very formal and proud to seem better than others
Acting very fancy to show you are better than others
Antonyms
How Snobbish
260
4.5
- Informal
5
9.5
- Offensive
74
7.3
- Offensive
7
5.3
16
7.4
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hoity-toity is likely a playful doubling of a word like haughty, which means 'arrogant', with the silly rhyme making it a teasing name. So, it describes someone acting 'too important' or snobbish.