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hoity-toity (adjective):
1 : thoughtlessly silly or frivolous
2 : marked by an air of assumed importance
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Today we most often use hoity-toity as an adjective, but before it was an adjective it was a noun meaning “thoughtless giddy behavior.” The noun, which first appeared in print in the middle of the 17th century, was probably created as a singsongy rhyme based on the dialectal English word hoit, meaning “to play the fool.” The adjective hoity-toity can stay close to its roots and mean “foolish” (“… as though it were very hoity-toity of me not to know that royal personage.” — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge), but in current use it more often means “pretentious.”
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