hoity toity
[adjective]
Synonyms: giddy, dizzy, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, harebrained, rattlebrained, scatterbrained, silly, skittish

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hoity-toity adjective

1. behaving in a way that suggests that you think you are more important than other people
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   • helter-skelter
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   • hocus-pocus
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   • hotchpotch
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   • itty-bitty
   • mumbo jumbo
   • mishmash
   • nitty-gritty
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   • pitter-patter
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   • tittle-tattle
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   • wishy-washy
   Word Originmid 17th cent. (as noun in the sense ‘boisterous or silly behaviour’, then as adjective meaning ‘lively and playful’): from obsolete hoit ‘indulge in riotous mirth’, of unknown origin.

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