English-Thai Dictionary

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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HOITY-TOITY

Hoi "ty-toi `ty, a. Etym: [From Hoit. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

hoity-toity

hoi ty-toi ty |ˌhoitē ˈtoitē ˈˌhɔɪdi ˈˌtɔɪdi | ▶adjective 1 haughty; snobbish: the moneyed, hoity-toity inhabitants of the island. 2 archaic frolicsome. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘boisterous or silly behavior ’): from obsolete hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth, ’ of unknown origin.

 

Oxford Dictionary

hoity-toity

hoity-toity |hɔɪtɪˈtɔɪti | ▶adjective haughty or snobbish: a hoity-toity little madam. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (as noun in the sense ‘boisterous or silly behaviour ’, then as adjective meaning ‘lively and playful ’): from obsolete hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth ’, of unknown origin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

hoity-toity

hoity-toity adjective informal oh, just look at Miss Prissface and her hoity-toity friends: snobbish, snobby, haughty, disdainful, conceited, proud, pretentious, arrogant, supercilious, superior, imperious, above oneself, self-important; informal high and mighty, snooty, stuck-up, puffed up, uppity, uppish, la-di-da.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

hoity-toity

hoity-toity adjective informal he's too hoity-toity to make friends with his fellow cadets. See haughty.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

hoity-toity

hoi ty-toi ty /hɔ̀ɪtitɔ́ɪti /形容詞 ｟やや古 ｠尊大な, 気取った .