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hooty-tooty

hooty-tooty 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 hooty-tooty

comparativemore hooty-tooty
superlativemost hooty-tooty

Questions about hooty-tooty

What is hooty-tooty the alternative form of?
Hooty-tooty is the alternative form of hoity-toity.

Words near hooty-tooty in the dictionary

  1. hoots
  2. hoots down
  3. hoots it up
  4. hooty
  5. hooty tooty
  6. hooty-tooty
  7. hoove
  8. hooved
  9. hooven
  10. Hoovens
  11. hoover

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