Definitions from Wiktionary (hoity-toity)

▸ noun:  (uncountable, archaic) Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.
▸ noun:  (countable, British, dialectal) A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.
▸ adjective:  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.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.
▸ adverb:  Flightily, giddily.
▸ adverb:  Merrily, in a noisy manner.



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