Definition of hoity-toity in English:

hoity-toity

adjective hɔɪtɪˈtɔɪtiˌhɔədiˈtɔɪdi

Haughty or snobbish.
傲慢的；势利的
the moneyed, hoity-toity inhabitants of the island
Example sentencesExamples
- Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare?
- That Russian spokesperson was a bit hoity-toity, wasn't she?
- She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth.
- I'd forgotten that I lived in a hoity-toity school district where kids driving thirty-thousand dollar cars were the rule.
- She was a hoity-toity type who never lifted a finger to earn her keep and was only good at spending her daddy's money.
- ‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle.
- We're not claiming to be some hoity-toity authorities on the subject, but we do love our films, and we're going to share them all with you.
- A girl from highschool was there with some of her hoity-toity friends, who I didn't know.
- All those Visa bills and other credit card bills are keeping these hoity-toity stores in business, obviously.
- Of course, one event can only do so much, and for Toronto, there's still lots of room to reach more people who don't necessarily go in for hoity-toity fashion events.
- I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob!
- It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is.
- Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college.
- She'd then hire a limo and tell us that she would meet us at whatever hoity-toity expensive restaurant my dad had chosen to take us to dinner at.
- ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
- My eye was caught by her hoity-toity reference to the use of bedding plants in ‘sad seaside towns’.
- Don't the good citizens of York, who live here year in, year out, deserve their city to be enhanced irrespective of any hoity-toity invasion?
- The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period.
- You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
- The way he talks - his British accent makes him sound so hoity-toity and full of himself, which he is!
Synonyms
proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself
snobbish, haughty, condescending, disdainful, patronizing, snobby, conceited, proud, arrogant, supercilious, superior, imperious, above oneself, self-important, overweening, lordly, lofty

Origin

Mid 17th century (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.

Definition of hoity-toity in US English:

hoity-toity

adjectiveˌhôədēˈtoidēˌhɔədiˈtɔɪdi

Haughty or snobbish.
傲慢的；势利的
the moneyed, hoity-toity inhabitants of the island
Example sentencesExamples
- My eye was caught by her hoity-toity reference to the use of bedding plants in ‘sad seaside towns’.
- A girl from highschool was there with some of her hoity-toity friends, who I didn't know.
- Of course, one event can only do so much, and for Toronto, there's still lots of room to reach more people who don't necessarily go in for hoity-toity fashion events.
- We're not claiming to be some hoity-toity authorities on the subject, but we do love our films, and we're going to share them all with you.
- You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages.
- ‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle.
- Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare?
- The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period.
- She'd then hire a limo and tell us that she would meet us at whatever hoity-toity expensive restaurant my dad had chosen to take us to dinner at.
- Don't the good citizens of York, who live here year in, year out, deserve their city to be enhanced irrespective of any hoity-toity invasion?
- I'd forgotten that I lived in a hoity-toity school district where kids driving thirty-thousand dollar cars were the rule.
- I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob!
- The way he talks - his British accent makes him sound so hoity-toity and full of himself, which he is!
- She was a hoity-toity type who never lifted a finger to earn her keep and was only good at spending her daddy's money.
- ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent.
- That Russian spokesperson was a bit hoity-toity, wasn't she?
- Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college.
- It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is.
- All those Visa bills and other credit card bills are keeping these hoity-toity stores in business, obviously.
- She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth.
Synonyms
proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself
snobbish, haughty, condescending, disdainful, patronizing, snobby, conceited, proud, arrogant, supercilious, superior, imperious, above oneself, self-important, overweening, lordly, lofty

Origin

Mid 17th century (as noun in the sense ‘boisterous or silly behavior’, then as adjective meaning ‘lively and playful’): from obsolete hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth’, of unknown origin.

词汇	hoity-toity
释义	Definition of hoity-toity in English: hoity-toity adjective hɔɪtɪˈtɔɪtiˌhɔədiˈtɔɪdi Haughty or snobbish. 傲慢的；势利的 the moneyed, hoity-toity inhabitants of the island Example sentencesExamples Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare? That Russian spokesperson was a bit hoity-toity, wasn't she? She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth. I'd forgotten that I lived in a hoity-toity school district where kids driving thirty-thousand dollar cars were the rule. She was a hoity-toity type who never lifted a finger to earn her keep and was only good at spending her daddy's money. ‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle. We're not claiming to be some hoity-toity authorities on the subject, but we do love our films, and we're going to share them all with you. A girl from highschool was there with some of her hoity-toity friends, who I didn't know. All those Visa bills and other credit card bills are keeping these hoity-toity stores in business, obviously. Of course, one event can only do so much, and for Toronto, there's still lots of room to reach more people who don't necessarily go in for hoity-toity fashion events. I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob! It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is. Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college. She'd then hire a limo and tell us that she would meet us at whatever hoity-toity expensive restaurant my dad had chosen to take us to dinner at. ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent. My eye was caught by her hoity-toity reference to the use of bedding plants in ‘sad seaside towns’. Don't the good citizens of York, who live here year in, year out, deserve their city to be enhanced irrespective of any hoity-toity invasion? The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period. You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages. The way he talks - his British accent makes him sound so hoity-toity and full of himself, which he is! Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself snobbish, haughty, condescending, disdainful, patronizing, snobby, conceited, proud, arrogant, supercilious, superior, imperious, above oneself, self-important, overweening, lordly, lofty Origin Mid 17th century (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. Definition of hoity-toity in US English: hoity-toity adjectiveˌhôədēˈtoidēˌhɔədiˈtɔɪdi Haughty or snobbish. 傲慢的；势利的 the moneyed, hoity-toity inhabitants of the island Example sentencesExamples My eye was caught by her hoity-toity reference to the use of bedding plants in ‘sad seaside towns’. A girl from highschool was there with some of her hoity-toity friends, who I didn't know. Of course, one event can only do so much, and for Toronto, there's still lots of room to reach more people who don't necessarily go in for hoity-toity fashion events. We're not claiming to be some hoity-toity authorities on the subject, but we do love our films, and we're going to share them all with you. You'll have seen them on TV, usually with a double-barrelled name, a hoity-toity accent and a self-appointed mission to keep Scotland in the Dark Ages. ‘They see people in the country as hoity-toity but nothing could be further from the truth,’ he said as we pulled into the driveway of his fifteenth-century home, Kilhenzie Castle. Or is he just downright hoity-toity, with that nose in the air and far-off stare? The road would through a sixties/seventies section of hoity-toity Edina, the rich neighborhood of Minneapolis' postwar ascendant period. She'd then hire a limo and tell us that she would meet us at whatever hoity-toity expensive restaurant my dad had chosen to take us to dinner at. Don't the good citizens of York, who live here year in, year out, deserve their city to be enhanced irrespective of any hoity-toity invasion? I'd forgotten that I lived in a hoity-toity school district where kids driving thirty-thousand dollar cars were the rule. I do not know why people think I am hoity-toity or a snob! The way he talks - his British accent makes him sound so hoity-toity and full of himself, which he is! She was a hoity-toity type who never lifted a finger to earn her keep and was only good at spending her daddy's money. ‘Well so are you,’ Krist returned haughtily, in his snooty, hoity-toity accent. That Russian spokesperson was a bit hoity-toity, wasn't she? Deana was from a hoity-toity family, see, and was all set to attend an Ivy League school of her choice for college. It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is. All those Visa bills and other credit card bills are keeping these hoity-toity stores in business, obviously. She's not a hoity-toity legal type, but very ordinary and down-to-earth. Synonyms proud, vain, arrogant, conceited, snobbish, stuck-up, pompous, self-important, superior, egotistical, supercilious, condescending, lofty, patronizing, smug, scornful, contemptuous, disdainful, overweening, overbearing, imperious, lordly, cavalier, high-handed, full of oneself, above oneself snobbish, haughty, condescending, disdainful, patronizing, snobby, conceited, proud, arrogant, supercilious, superior, imperious, above oneself, self-important, overweening, lordly, lofty Origin Mid 17th century (as noun in the sense ‘boisterous or silly behavior’, then as adjective meaning ‘lively and playful’): from obsolete hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth’, of unknown origin.
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