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Significats de hoity-toity en anglès

Affectedly genteel.

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Ús de hoity-toity en anglès
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No wonder you shake that hoity-toity of yours every chance you get.
Happiness key
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I hope the lesson brought down her hoity-toity a peg or two.
Jane Allen, Junior
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Mahony was feeling particularly rasped by John's hoity-toity behaviour in this connection.
Australia Felix
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Faithfull was far too hoity-toity to do anything as common as signing on.
The Guardian
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You needn't be so hoity-toity; you haven't much occasion; sit down.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896
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It's no good your being hoity-toity, and telling me to mind my business.
Beyond
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You are too clever a man to attempt the hoity-toity manner with me!
The Enchanted Canyon
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She was the one all cozied up to their hoity-toity asses.
Swamp Bones
9
So there's no real reason to get hoity-toity about the trailer's lack of Doyleness.
The Irish Times
10
Not only was Obama a celebrity, but he was precious, self-infatuated, effete, hoity-toity- acelebrelitist
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What made him go off in that hoity-toity fashion?
The American Senator
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For the hoity-toity snobs on the east coast, Adelaide is a byword for backwardness and boredom.
News.com.au
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What would the famously irreverent rascal say about his inclusion in the hoity-toity world of high fashion?
Reuters
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It's thanks to me that her grandfather is a happy man in that hoity-toity place he likes.
Nightwalker
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Had him go to Boston, to have his larynx checked out by a hoity-toity specialist and everything.
Second glance
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What comes back, knowing everything, acting so hoity-toity, treating us like dirt, tearing a young man's life apart?
I shall wear midnight
Hoity-toity a través del temps