hooty tooty

A form of hoity-toity — Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.

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adjectivehooty tooty (comparative more hooty tooty, superlative most hooty tooty)

comparative more hooty tooty · superlative most hooty tooty

  1. alternativeAlternative form of hoity-toity.

    She wouldn't be an awful lady if she wasn't so hooty tooty.

    1989, Paula Sharp, The Woman who was Not All There, page 304
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    Because I do not want to just talk about it, we've got to figure out a way to change the public schools and then disengage from the public schools by putting my kid in some hooty tooty private school someplace.

    2004, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources, Faith Based Perspectives on the Provision of Community Service, page 49

    Your nation's just signed an alliance with them hooty tooty boys from Frontce.

    2013, Thomas J. Thiel, Dreamland, page 255
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