Определение слова «hoity-toity» на английский

noun

1. (uncountable, archaic) Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.

2. (uncountable, obsolete) Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.

3. (countable, British, dialectal) A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.

adjective

1. Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.

2. (obsolete) Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.

adverb

1. Flightily, giddily.

2. Merrily, in a noisy manner.

interjection

1. (dated) Expressing disapprobation or surprise at acts or words that are pompous or snobbish, or flighty.