hoity-toity

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Tính thường xuyên

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Phát âm là (IPA)
/ˈhɔɪtiˈtɔɪti/
Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

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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