horty

"'Her father the noble lord was always out at his office and didn't know how the horty step-mother treated Emmeline, but she grew thinner and paler every day, and all her face went transparant and the blue veins were trased in their pallor and her little hand was like a skellington's; and the cruel step-mother made her do all the scrubbing and hard work, and treated her like a menient.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

"Oh, how stupid you are," cried Pauline; "she's the daughter, of course, -- 'sitting in the spachius drawing-room of the castle her father strode in, and he led by the hand a very horty lady.

In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915

"That'd be all I _wanted_," said Annie; "but I kaint stand them horty ways.

The Way of a Man Emerson Hough 1890