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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing;

as, to be in

hoity-toity

spirits, or to assume

hoity-toity

airs

; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.

Hoity-toity

! What have I to do with dreams?

Congreve.

hoity-toity ‎(comparative more hoity-toity, superlative most hoity-toity)

pompous