hoity-toity

短语
FREQ #48810

a. 傲慢的, 作态的, 轻浮的 n. 横蛮的态度, 装腔作势 interj. 嗬-吠(表轻蔑的惊奇)

发音

US /ˈhɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/
其它
UK /ˈhɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/

词形变化

hoity-toities 复数 hoity-toities hoity-toitier 比较级 hoity-toitier hoity-toitiest hoity-toitiest 最高级 more hoity-toity 比较级 most hoity-toity 最高级

别名

hoitytoity highty-tighty hity-tity hooty tooty hooty-tooty

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Behaviour adopted to demonstrate one's superiority; pretentious or snobbish behaviour; airs and graces.

    古体 不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    Flighty, giddy, or silly behaviour; also, noisy merriment.

    废旧 不可数 可数
  3. 3.

    A young woman regarded as flighty, giddy, or silly.

    可数 方言 不可数
adj.
  1. 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. 2.

    Flighty, giddy, silly; also, merry in a noisy manner.

    废旧
adv.
  1. 1.

    Flightily, giddily.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    Merrily, in a noisy manner.

    废旧
interj.
  1. 1.

    Expressing disapprobation or surprise at acts or words that are pompous or snobbish, or flighty.

    过时 废旧

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 5

grandiose la-di-da hifalutin highfalutin highfaluting

近义相关 1

pretentious

词源

Probably from hoit (“to behave frivolously and thoughtlessly; to play the fool”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having the quality of’), reduplicated with a change of the initial consonant. The noun is attested earlier than the adjective.

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