hoity-toityn.adj.adv.int.

/ˈhɔɪtɪˈtɔɪti/

Forms: See also highty-tighty int., n., and adj.

Etymology: apparently a derivative of hoit v., with reduplication; logically, the adjective ought to precede the noun. The sense seems in later times to have gradually been influenced by high , height , and their family; this becomes explicit in the spelling highty-tighty int., n., and adj.

A. n.

1. (a) Riotous or giddy behaviour; romping, frolic; disturbance, ‘rumpus’; flightiness. (b) Assumption of superiority, ‘airs’, huffiness.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]

pensifulnessc1450

affectation1548

affection1570

affectedness1622

lady aira1637

fastuousness1649

gentility1650

fastuosity1656

vapouring1656

flatulency1662

hoity-toity1668

pretendingness1701

with an air1701

pretension1706

flatulence1711

uppishness1716

high and mightiness1771

pensieness1825

fine-gentlemanism1831

pretentiousness1838

ambitiousness1845

stuckupishness1853

pretensiveness1859

notion1866

side1870

dog1871

hoity-toityism1881

superiority complex1921

snootiness1932

uppitiness1935

snottiness1973

snoot1984

swag2002

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun]

rampinga1425

daffing1535

May game1571

horseplay1590

hoiting1594

wantonizing1598

roguery1611

romperinga1625

hoity-toity1668

frolicking1676

frolic1677

romping1694

wantoning1701

vagary1791

skylarking1809

larking1813

rollicking1823

high-jinking1891

shenaniganning1924

grab-ass1948

mollocking1959

bants2008

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness

giddinessa1290

lightnessc1384

gerishnessa1513

fantasticnessc1550

unstaidnessa1557

fantasticalness1583

triflingnessa1586

spleen1598

capriciousness1607

skittishness1607

humorousness1611

wavinga1628

volageness1633

arbitrariness1643

garishness1649

legerity1652

mercury1653

volatility1655

caprich1656

humoursomeness1662

hoity-toity1668

jollity1670

unaccountableness1676

freak1678

whimsya1680

featheriness1689

toysomeness1697

caprice1711

whimsicalness1715

flirtation1718

whima1721

flightiness1747

whimsicality1761

giggishness1781

fancifulness1818

hoity-toityness1820

whifflery1835

crotchetiness1837

quirkiness1870

faddishness1884

faddism1885

vagarity1886

erraticism1889

whimsiness1909

1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 100 The Widows I observ'd.. Chanting and Jigging to every Tune they heard, and all upon the Hoyty-Toyty, like mad Wenches of Fifteen.

1784 J. O'Keeffe Fontainbleau iii. iii My mother..was a fine lady, all upon the hoity-toities, and so, good for nothing.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. ii. 358 If this Danton were to burst your mesh-work!..what a Hoitytoity were there, Justice and Culprit changing places.

1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 142 After your three bouts At hoitytoity, great men with long words, And so forth.

2. A giddy or romping girl; a hoyden, romp. dialect. Cf. highty-tighty n.

ΚΠ

1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 255 The Frowzy Browzy, Hoyty Toyty, Covent-Garden Harridan.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Hoity-toity, a hoity-toity wench; a giddy, thoughtless, romping girl.

B. adj.

(a) Frolicsome, romping, giddy, flighty. (b) Assuming, haughty, petulant, huffy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective]

taunt?a1534

cocket1537

fastuous?1591

cobbing1599

whalebone1602

airy1606

fastigious1625

flatuous1630

high and mighty1633

vapouring1647

flatulent1658

hoity-toity1690

jackanapish1696

superior1711

penseful1788

uppish1789

pensy1790

stuck-up1812

glorified1821

toploftical1823

pretentious1832

sophomoric1837

highty-tighty1847

snippy1848

jumped-up1852

set-up1856

toplofty1859

cock-aloft1861

high-tone1864

high-toned1866

pretensivea1868

fancy-pants1870

hunched1870

snotty1870

head-in-air1880

uppity1880

jackanapsian1881

airified1882

sidey1898

posh1914

upstage1918

snooty1919

high-hatted1924

hincty1924

snot-nosed1941

posho1989

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective]

ramping1484

rampish1530

frolic?1548

prankya1556

hoiting1594

tricksy1598

tida1641

frolickish1660

romping1662

hoity-toity1690

rompish1696

frolicsome1699

friskful1728

highty-tighty1737

frolicky1748

prankish1776

rollicking1786

prankfula1795

pranksome1810

tricksome1815

espiègle1816

larkish1823

skylarking1826

larking1828

rompy1838

larky1841

rollicksome1841

Pucklike1845

rollicky1846

frolicful1848

larksome1871

puckish1874

horseplayish1882

frolicking1887

tricksical1889

shenaniganning1924

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical

startfulmood?a1300

wildc1350

volage?a1366

gerfulc1374

geryc1386

wild-headeda1400

skittishc1412

gerish1430

shittle1440

shittle-witted1448

runningc1449

volageous1487

glaikit1488

fantasious1490

giggish1523

tickle or light of the sear?1530

fantastical1531

wayward1531

wantona1538

peevish1539

light-headed1549

humoral1573

unstaid1579

shittle-headed1580

toy-headed1581

fangled1587

humorous1589

choiceful1591

toyish1598

tricksy1598

skip-brain1603

capricious1605

humoursome1607

planetary1607

vertiginous1609

whimsieda1625

ingiddied1628

whimsy1637

toysome1638

cocklec1640

mercurial1647

garish1650

maggoty1650

kicksey-winseya1652

freakish1653

humourish1653

planetic1653

whimsical1653

shittle-braineda1655

freaking1663

maggoty-headed1667

maggot-pated1681

hoity-toity1690

maggotish1693

maggot-headeda1695

whimsy-headed1699

fantasque1701

crotchetly1702

quixotic1718

volatile1719

holloweda1734

conundrumical1743

flighty1768

fly-away1775

dizzy1780

whimmy1785

shy1787

whimming1787

quirky1789

notional1791

tricksome1815

vagarish1819

freakful1820

faddy1824

moodish1827

mawky1837

erratic1841

rockety1843

quirkish1848

maggoty-pated1850

crotchetya1854

freaksome1854

faddish1855

vagrom1882

fantasied1883

vagarisome1883

on-and-offish1888

tricksical1889

freaky1891

hobby-horsical1893

quirksome1896

temperamental1907

up and down1960

untogether1969

fanciful-

fantastic-

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 21 And that hoighty toighty business ought, in Conscience, to be over.

1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 23 Mar. 2/1 If any hoity-toity Things make a Fuss, they are sure to be taken to pieces the next Visit.

1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague I. iv. 16 There is generally a certain hoity-toity inelegance of form and manner at seventeen.

1820 J. Keats Cap & Bells lxxix See what hoity-toity airs she took.

1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude vii. 141 A good girl and not hoity-toity.

1896 W. Harcourt Speech in Commons 13 Feb. It is not to be got rid of by the use of, if I may use the phrase without offence, the hoity-toity language of the hon. and gallant member.

†C. adv.

In a frolicsome or giddy manner. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adverb]

trenchmore1577

frolicly1592

ahoit1598

hoity-toity1734

rollickingly1842

friskily1862

tricksily1866

frolicsomely1874

prankishly1883

larkingly1896

daffingly1902

1734 S. Johnson Harmony in Uproar 16 All of a sudden we run as mad as ever; and, hoity toity away went we.

1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village ii. iii. 18th Air Hoity, toity, Whisking, frisking.

D. int.

An exclamation expressing surprise with some degree of contempt, esp. at words or actions considered to show flightiness or undue assumption.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]

prut?c1300

trutc1330

truptc1380

ahaa1400

tushc1440

puff1481

quotha?1520

ah?1526

ta ha1528

twish1577

blurt1592

gip1592

pish1592

tantia1593

(God) bless (also save) the mark1593

phah1593

marry come up1597

mew1600

pooh1600

marry muff1602

pew waw1602

ptish1602

pew1604

push1605

pshaw1607

tuh1607

pea1608

poh1650

pooh pooh1694

hoity-toity1695

highty-tighty1699

quoz?1780

indeed1834

shuck1847

skidoo1906

suck1913

zut1915

yah boo1921

pooey1927

ptui1930

snubs1934

upya1941

yah boo sucks1980

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] > mingled with contempt

marry come up1597

hoity-toity1695

highty-tighty1699

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 46 Hoity toity, What have I to do with his Dreams or his Divination?

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. viii. 59 Hoity toity!..Madam is in her Airs, I protest.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxix. 288 ‘Why, he don't mean to say he's going!.. Hoity toity! nonsense.’

1883 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Executor II. 91 ‘Hoity toity!’ cried Mr. Harding, a little surprised. ‘Well, you'll think better of it’.

Derivatives

hoity-ˈtoityism n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun]

pensifulnessc1450

affectation1548

affection1570

affectedness1622

lady aira1637

fastuousness1649

gentility1650

fastuosity1656

vapouring1656

flatulency1662

hoity-toity1668

pretendingness1701

with an air1701

pretension1706

flatulence1711

uppishness1716

high and mightiness1771

pensieness1825

fine-gentlemanism1831

pretentiousness1838

ambitiousness1845

stuckupishness1853

pretensiveness1859

notion1866

side1870

dog1871

hoity-toityism1881

superiority complex1921

snootiness1932

uppitiness1935

snottiness1973

snoot1984

swag2002

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun]

touchiness1603

huffiness1678

sensibilities1767

sensitiveness1817

tactility1831

huffishness1841

miffiness1845

hoity-toityism1881

sensitivity1906

prickle1956

1881 T. Watts in Athenæum 3 Sept. 308/2 The talk gets naturally upon ‘lords’ in general, gentility, nonsense, and ‘hoity-toityism’ as the canker at the heart of modern civilization.

hoity-ˈtoityness n. flightiness, huffiness, petulance.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness

giddinessa1290

lightnessc1384

gerishnessa1513

fantasticnessc1550

unstaidnessa1557

fantasticalness1583

triflingnessa1586

spleen1598

capriciousness1607

skittishness1607

humorousness1611

wavinga1628

volageness1633

arbitrariness1643

garishness1649

legerity1652

mercury1653

volatility1655

caprich1656

humoursomeness1662

hoity-toity1668

jollity1670

unaccountableness1676

freak1678

whimsya1680

featheriness1689

toysomeness1697

caprice1711

whimsicalness1715

flirtation1718

whima1721

flightiness1747

whimsicality1761

giggishness1781

fancifulness1818

hoity-toityness1820

whifflery1835

crotchetiness1837

quirkiness1870

faddishness1884

faddism1885

vagarity1886

erraticism1889

whimsiness1909

1820 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 106 A person whose hoity-toityness is depressing beyond conception.

hoity-toity v. (intransitive) to act in a hoity-toity manner, to romp inelegantly, to hoyden.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]

floxec1200

ragea1275

to dance antics1545

rig1570

to keep (also play) reaks1573

wanton1582

wantonize1592

frolic1593

wantonize1611

hoit1613

mird?c1625

to play about1638

freak1663

romp1665

rump1680

ramp1735

jinket1742

skylark1771

to cut up1775

rollick1786

hoity-toity1790

fun1802

lark1813

gammock1832

haze1848

marlock1863

train1877

horse1901

mollock1932

spadger1939

grab-ass1957

1790 ‘Toby Teach 'em’ Hist. Goody Goosecap 23 Miss Sally Scramble..minded nothing but hoity-toitying about, and had nothing but play in her head.

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单词	hoity-toity
释义	hoity-toityn.adj.adv.int. /ˈhɔɪtɪˈtɔɪti/ Forms: See also highty-tighty int., n., and adj. Etymology: apparently a derivative of hoit v., with reduplication; logically, the adjective ought to precede the noun. The sense seems in later times to have gradually been influenced by high , height , and their family; this becomes explicit in the spelling highty-tighty int., n., and adj. A. n. 1. (a) Riotous or giddy behaviour; romping, frolic; disturbance, ‘rumpus’; flightiness. (b) Assumption of superiority, ‘airs’, huffiness. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [noun] rampinga1425 daffing1535 May game1571 horseplay1590 hoiting1594 wantonizing1598 roguery1611 romperinga1625 hoity-toity1668 frolicking1676 frolic1677 romping1694 wantoning1701 vagary1791 skylarking1809 larking1813 rollicking1823 high-jinking1891 shenaniganning1924 grab-ass1948 mollocking1959 bants2008 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness giddinessa1290 lightnessc1384 gerishnessa1513 fantasticnessc1550 unstaidnessa1557 fantasticalness1583 triflingnessa1586 spleen1598 capriciousness1607 skittishness1607 humorousness1611 wavinga1628 volageness1633 arbitrariness1643 garishness1649 legerity1652 mercury1653 volatility1655 caprich1656 humoursomeness1662 hoity-toity1668 jollity1670 unaccountableness1676 freak1678 whimsya1680 featheriness1689 toysomeness1697 caprice1711 whimsicalness1715 flirtation1718 whima1721 flightiness1747 whimsicality1761 giggishness1781 fancifulness1818 hoity-toityness1820 whifflery1835 crotchetiness1837 quirkiness1870 faddishness1884 faddism1885 vagarity1886 erraticism1889 whimsiness1909 1668 R. L'Estrange tr. F. G. de Quevedo y Villegas Visions (1708) 100 The Widows I observ'd.. Chanting and Jigging to every Tune they heard, and all upon the Hoyty-Toyty, like mad Wenches of Fifteen. 1784 J. O'Keeffe Fontainbleau iii. iii My mother..was a fine lady, all upon the hoity-toities, and so, good for nothing. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. vi. ii. 358 If this Danton were to burst your mesh-work!..what a Hoitytoity were there, Justice and Culprit changing places. 1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 142 After your three bouts At hoitytoity, great men with long words, And so forth. 2. A giddy or romping girl; a hoyden, romp. dialect. Cf. highty-tighty n. ΚΠ 1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 255 The Frowzy Browzy, Hoyty Toyty, Covent-Garden Harridan. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Hoity-toity, a hoity-toity wench; a giddy, thoughtless, romping girl. B. adj. (a) Frolicsome, romping, giddy, flighty. (b) Assuming, haughty, petulant, huffy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] taunt?a1534 cocket1537 fastuous?1591 cobbing1599 whalebone1602 airy1606 fastigious1625 flatuous1630 high and mighty1633 vapouring1647 flatulent1658 hoity-toity1690 jackanapish1696 superior1711 penseful1788 uppish1789 pensy1790 stuck-up1812 glorified1821 toploftical1823 pretentious1832 sophomoric1837 highty-tighty1847 snippy1848 jumped-up1852 set-up1856 toplofty1859 cock-aloft1861 high-tone1864 high-toned1866 pretensivea1868 fancy-pants1870 hunched1870 snotty1870 head-in-air1880 uppity1880 jackanapsian1881 airified1882 sidey1898 posh1914 upstage1918 snooty1919 high-hatted1924 hincty1924 snot-nosed1941 posho1989 society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adjective] ramping1484 rampish1530 frolic?1548 prankya1556 hoiting1594 tricksy1598 tida1641 frolickish1660 romping1662 hoity-toity1690 rompish1696 frolicsome1699 friskful1728 highty-tighty1737 frolicky1748 prankish1776 rollicking1786 prankfula1795 pranksome1810 tricksome1815 espiègle1816 larkish1823 skylarking1826 larking1828 rompy1838 larky1841 rollicksome1841 Pucklike1845 rollicky1846 frolicful1848 larksome1871 puckish1874 horseplayish1882 frolicking1887 tricksical1889 shenaniganning1924 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > capricious or whimsical startfulmood?a1300 wildc1350 volage?a1366 gerfulc1374 geryc1386 wild-headeda1400 skittishc1412 gerish1430 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 runningc1449 volageous1487 glaikit1488 fantasious1490 giggish1523 tickle or light of the sear?1530 fantastical1531 wayward1531 wantona1538 peevish1539 light-headed1549 humoral1573 unstaid1579 shittle-headed1580 toy-headed1581 fangled1587 humorous1589 choiceful1591 toyish1598 tricksy1598 skip-brain1603 capricious1605 humoursome1607 planetary1607 vertiginous1609 whimsieda1625 ingiddied1628 whimsy1637 toysome1638 cocklec1640 mercurial1647 garish1650 maggoty1650 kicksey-winseya1652 freakish1653 humourish1653 planetic1653 whimsical1653 shittle-braineda1655 freaking1663 maggoty-headed1667 maggot-pated1681 hoity-toity1690 maggotish1693 maggot-headeda1695 whimsy-headed1699 fantasque1701 crotchetly1702 quixotic1718 volatile1719 holloweda1734 conundrumical1743 flighty1768 fly-away1775 dizzy1780 whimmy1785 shy1787 whimming1787 quirky1789 notional1791 tricksome1815 vagarish1819 freakful1820 faddy1824 moodish1827 mawky1837 erratic1841 rockety1843 quirkish1848 maggoty-pated1850 crotchetya1854 freaksome1854 faddish1855 vagrom1882 fantasied1883 vagarisome1883 on-and-offish1888 tricksical1889 freaky1891 hobby-horsical1893 quirksome1896 temperamental1907 up and down1960 untogether1969 fanciful- fantastic- 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon ii. ii. 21 And that hoighty toighty business ought, in Conscience, to be over. 1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 23 Mar. 2/1 If any hoity-toity Things make a Fuss, they are sure to be taken to pieces the next Visit. 1769 F. Brooke Hist. Emily Montague I. iv. 16 There is generally a certain hoity-toity inelegance of form and manner at seventeen. 1820 J. Keats Cap & Bells lxxix See what hoity-toity airs she took. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude vii. 141 A good girl and not hoity-toity. 1896 W. Harcourt Speech in Commons 13 Feb. It is not to be got rid of by the use of, if I may use the phrase without offence, the hoity-toity language of the hon. and gallant member. †C. adv. In a frolicsome or giddy manner. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > [adverb] trenchmore1577 frolicly1592 ahoit1598 hoity-toity1734 rollickingly1842 friskily1862 tricksily1866 frolicsomely1874 prankishly1883 larkingly1896 daffingly1902 1734 S. Johnson Harmony in Uproar 16 All of a sudden we run as mad as ever; and, hoity toity away went we. 1763 I. Bickerstaff Love in Village ii. iii. 18th Air Hoity, toity, Whisking, frisking. D. int. An exclamation expressing surprise with some degree of contempt, esp. at words or actions considered to show flightiness or undue assumption. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection] prut?c1300 trutc1330 truptc1380 ahaa1400 tushc1440 puff1481 quotha?1520 ah?1526 ta ha1528 twish1577 blurt1592 gip1592 pish1592 tantia1593 (God) bless (also save) the mark1593 phah1593 marry come up1597 mew1600 pooh1600 marry muff1602 pew waw1602 ptish1602 pew1604 push1605 pshaw1607 tuh1607 pea1608 poh1650 pooh pooh1694 hoity-toity1695 highty-tighty1699 quoz?1780 indeed1834 shuck1847 skidoo1906 suck1913 zut1915 yah boo1921 pooey1927 ptui1930 snubs1934 upya1941 yah boo sucks1980 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] > mingled with contempt marry come up1597 hoity-toity1695 highty-tighty1699 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 46 Hoity toity, What have I to do with his Dreams or his Divination? 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. vii. viii. 59 Hoity toity!..Madam is in her Airs, I protest. View more context for this quotation 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxix. 288 ‘Why, he don't mean to say he's going!.. Hoity toity! nonsense.’ 1883 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Executor II. 91 ‘Hoity toity!’ cried Mr. Harding, a little surprised. ‘Well, you'll think better of it’. Derivatives hoity-ˈtoityism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > touchiness > [noun] touchiness1603 huffiness1678 sensibilities1767 sensitiveness1817 tactility1831 huffishness1841 miffiness1845 hoity-toityism1881 sensitivity1906 prickle1956 1881 T. Watts in Athenæum 3 Sept. 308/2 The talk gets naturally upon ‘lords’ in general, gentility, nonsense, and ‘hoity-toityism’ as the canker at the heart of modern civilization. hoity-ˈtoityness n. flightiness, huffiness, petulance. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness giddinessa1290 lightnessc1384 gerishnessa1513 fantasticnessc1550 unstaidnessa1557 fantasticalness1583 triflingnessa1586 spleen1598 capriciousness1607 skittishness1607 humorousness1611 wavinga1628 volageness1633 arbitrariness1643 garishness1649 legerity1652 mercury1653 volatility1655 caprich1656 humoursomeness1662 hoity-toity1668 jollity1670 unaccountableness1676 freak1678 whimsya1680 featheriness1689 toysomeness1697 caprice1711 whimsicalness1715 flirtation1718 whima1721 flightiness1747 whimsicality1761 giggishness1781 fancifulness1818 hoity-toityness1820 whifflery1835 crotchetiness1837 quirkiness1870 faddishness1884 faddism1885 vagarity1886 erraticism1889 whimsiness1909 1820 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) II. 106 A person whose hoity-toityness is depressing beyond conception. hoity-toity v. (intransitive) to act in a hoity-toity manner, to romp inelegantly, to hoyden. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)] floxec1200 ragea1275 to dance antics1545 rig1570 to keep (also play) reaks1573 wanton1582 wantonize1592 frolic1593 wantonize1611 hoit1613 mird?c1625 to play about1638 freak1663 romp1665 rump1680 ramp1735 jinket1742 skylark1771 to cut up1775 rollick1786 hoity-toity1790 fun1802 lark1813 gammock1832 haze1848 marlock1863 train1877 horse1901 mollock1932 spadger1939 grab-ass1957 1790 ‘Toby Teach 'em’ Hist. Goody Goosecap 23 Miss Sally Scramble..minded nothing but hoity-toitying about, and had nothing but play in her head. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.adv.int.1668
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