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(a.) Thoughtless; giddy; flighty; also, haughty; patronizing; as, to be in hoity-toity spirits, or to assume hoity-toity airs; used also as an exclamation, denoting surprise or disapprobation, with some degree of contempt.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hoity-Toity'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hoity-toity.html. 1828.
 
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