Word.ws English Dictionary

hoity-toitily

UK/ˌhɔɪ.tiˈtɔɪ.tɪ.li/

hoity-toitily adverb: in a pompous or snobbish manner.

Adverb

hoity-toitily (comparative more hoity-toitily, superlative most hoity-toitily)

  1. In a pompous or snobbish manner.
    • "It's none of your business," I said hoity-toitily.2001, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel, page 36

Forms of hoity-toitily

comparativemore hoity-toitily
superlativemost hoity-toitily

Origin of hoity-toitily

From hoity-toity + -ly.

Questions about hoity-toitily

What does hoity-toitily mean?
Hoity-toitily means in a pompous or snobbish manner.
What part of speech is hoity-toitily?
Hoity-toitily is an adverb.
How do you pronounce hoity-toitily?
Hoity-toitily is pronounced /ˌhɔɪ.tiˈtɔɪ.tɪ.li/ (UK).

Words near hoity-toitily in the dictionary

  1. hoits
  2. hoity toity
  3. hoity-toitier
  4. hoity-toities
  5. hoity-toitiest
  6. hoity-toitily
  7. hoity-toitiness
  8. hoity-toity
  9. hoitytoity
  10. hoja santa
  11. Hojai

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hoity-toitily (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-au-hoity-toitily.ogg.

Cite this entry: “hoity-toitily.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hoity-toitily. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.