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hoity-toity

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hoity-toity/hɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/

▶adjective haughty or snobbish.

– origin C17: from obs. hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth’, of unknown origin.

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