(a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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