Hoity-toity
adjective hoy-tee-TOY-tee
Definition 1 : thoughtlessly silly or frivolous : flighty
2 : marked by an air of assumed importance : highfalutin
Examples "… she was by no means hoity-toity, but a thinking, reasoning being of the profoundest intellectual, or, rather, the highest artistic tendencies." — Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, 1914
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