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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-160/
- Published: 2025-01-07T17:15:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-07T17:15:19.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

hoity-toity (noun, adjective):

*noun*  
: thoughtless giddy behavior

*adjective*  
1: thoughtlessly silly or frivolous : flighty  
2: marked by an air of assumed importance

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoity-toity?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : In modern use, hoity-toity is used almost exclusively to describe someone who's got their nose stuck up in the air, or something suited for such a person. But for over a hundred years, hoity-toity was used solely as a noun referring to thoughtless and silly behavior. The noun originated as a rhyming reduplication of the dialectical verb hoit, meaning "to play the fool." Accordingly, as an adjective hoity-toity was originally used to describe someone as thoughtless or silly—as when English writer W. Somerset Maugham wrote in his 1944 novel The Razor’s Edge "very hoity-toity of me not to know that royal personage"—but today it is more likely to describe the royal personage, or someone who puts on airs as if they were a royal personage.

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