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hity-tity

hity-tity is the alternative form of hoity-toity.

Meaning of hoity-toity

Adjective

hoity-toity (comparative hoity-toitier, superlative hoity-toitiest)

  1. 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.
    • [S]ee what hoity-toity airs she took[…].1819 (date written), John Keats, “The Cap and Bells; or, The Jealousies”, in [Horace Elisha Scudder], editor, The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge edition, Boston, Mass....
  2. (obsolete) Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.
    • [W]e have been married fifteen Years, I take it: and that hoighty toighty buſineſs ought, in Conſcience, to be over.1690, [John] Dryden, Amphitryon; or, The Two Sosia’s. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […]; and M. Tonson […], published 1691, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 21

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Forms of hity-tity

comparativemore hity-tity
superlativemost hity-tity

Questions about hity-tity

What is hity-tity the alternative form of?
Hity-tity is the alternative form of hoity-toity.

Words near hity-tity in the dictionary

  1. Hitumnog
  2. hitup
  3. hitups
  4. hitwoman
  5. hitwomen
  6. hity-tity
  7. hitz
  8. Hitzes
  9. Hiu
  10. HIV
  11. HIV disease

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