Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
hoity-toity .
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- adjective
hoity-toity
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Examples
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There ain't nothin 'hity-tity about her, but she's got more common-sense than any woman I ever saw.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"I'll laugh and slap my leg if he ever gets shet of that hity-tity girl," he rejoined, stoutly.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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Better to confess ourselves _hity-tity_, and to raise a _hullabaloo_, than such _humbug_ as this!
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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"hity-tity," mother said she didn't like to see so many furbelows, and
Harper's Young People, March 9, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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