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Hoity-toity

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1690, OED Evaluation: N/A

Assuming, haughty, petulant, huffy.

ExampleMeaning
But that 's like a cool place you can go hear music. It 's not like one of these like, hoity-toity little bars where you pay ten dollars for a drink and you have to dress like you 're a beauty-queen you-know?
Snobbish
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah you have three kids. Speaker: I have four. Interviewer: Four kids. And they all come up still? Speaker: Ah they are getting too hoity-toity for some of them you-know? They- well one of the older ones got her own at um- at Crosby-Lake outside of Perth. They have a beautiful cottage there.
Snobbish
ExampleMeaning
So we had ah Caribbean talking ah bartenders and whatever other staff that was there. Other than that they were all white, like from Switzerland and-so-on. They were very hoity-toity.
Snobbish
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So I- I- I knew but I don't think other guys really picked up on it. Interviewer: Yeah, that's sad. Speaker: So I'm just like, ah whatever, which is probably for the best because she's kind-of- she's not a debbie-downer but she's just too like hoity-toity. Interviewer: Mm, oh well, it's for the best.
Snobbish