Etymology

hoity-toity

Today it means: Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces. Full definition →

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The story

Probably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective.

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