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词组 hoity-toity
释义 hoity-toity
adjective
snobbish, haughty, assuming, uppish UK, 1720
Directly from the earlier form “highty-tighty”.
  • The prime spot for a pick-up (if you’re not hoity-toity) is the Central Park Mall[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 115, 1948
  • The San Remo crowd was there, virtually hanging from the rafters; the queers and phonies and hoity-toities. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 405, 1961
  • That good-looking thing traveling with the hoity-toity blonde? — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 222, 1982
  • [diary entry 11th November 1993] [T]oday’s postbag contains a hoity-toity letter from one of my activists. — Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code, 1999
  • [H]e lives in a posh snob hoity-toity house! — Ben Elton, High Society, p. 140, 2002
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