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
hoity-toity
Hyphenation
hoi·ty-toi·ty
Pronunciation
Etymology
() From the archaic verb hoit (“to play the fool; to behave thoughtlessly and frivolously”)