hoity-toity
hoity-toity · hoity-toities
хорохорство
A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or sillyA young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.
/ˈhɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/
Meaning
3 senses(UK, countable, dialectal)A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.
(archaic, uncountable)Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.
(obsolete, uncountable)Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.
Translations
1 languagesРусский
By meaning 1
Origin
Probably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (sufProbably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective.
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Forms
plural: hoity-toitiesSynonyms
10 synonymsflightinessC2frolicC2airshuffinessgiddinesssillinesshigh jinksrompingaffectationspretensions
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable