adjective · irregular · rare

hoity-toity

hoity-toity · hoity-toitier · hoity-toitiest

etepetete

Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of…Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.

/ˈhɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/

Meaning

2 senses

Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.
etepetete
(obsolete)Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.

More definitions

affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty

Translations

2 languages

Deutsch

By meaning 1

affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation — see also pompous, snobbish, high-sounding:

Origin

Probably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (suf

Probably 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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