hoity-toity

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(old-fashioned, informal) behaving in a way that suggests that you think you are more important than other people: a hoity-toity attitude

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

hoity-toityEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary hoity-toityEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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hockey hocus-pocus hod hodgepodge hoe hog Hogmanay hogwash ho ho ho-hum hoick hoist

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Is hoity-toity a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, hoity-toity is tagged as adjective.

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