"hoity toity" meaning in English

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Interjection

Head templates: {{en-interj|nolinkhead=1}} hoity toity
  1. Alternative form of hoity-toity Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: hoity-toity
    Sense id: en-hoity_toity-en-intj-iLek70i1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "Hoity toity, VVhat have I to do vvith his Dreams or his Divination—Body o' me, this is a Trick to defer Signing the Conveyance.",
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          "ref": "1762 December 8 (first performance), [Isaac Bickerstaffe], Love in a Village; a Comic Opera. […], 4th edition, London: […] W. Griffin; for J[ohn] Newbery, and W. Nicoll, […]; G[eorge] Kearsley, […]; T[homas] Davies, […]; and J. Walter, […], published 1763, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 26:",
          "text": "VVhy, here is nothing in the vvorld in this houſe but catter-vvavvling from morning till night, nothing but catter-vvavvling. Hoity toity! vvho have vve here?",
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          "text": "\"I have some reason to fear,\" interrupted Nicholas, \"that before you leave here my career with you will have closed.\" […] \"Why, he don't mean to say he's going!\" exclaimed Mrs. Grudden, making her way towards Mrs. Crummles. \"Hoity toity! nonsense.\"",
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