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Synonyms & Antonyms of hoity-toity
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- a bunch of hoity-toity snobs
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for hoity-toity
- arrogant,
- bumptious,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- high-and-mighty,
- high-handed,
- high-hat,
- imperious,
- important,
- overweening,
- presumptuous,
- prideful,
- proud,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-centered,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-important,
- self-obsessed,
- self-pleased,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious
- affected,
- grandiose,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- high-minded,
- la-di-da
- (also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah),
- ostentatious,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- snippy
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for hoity-toity
hoity-toity
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of hoity-toity (Entry 2 of 2)
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for hoity-toity
- gas,
- hot air,
- rigmarole
- (also rigamarole)
- absurdity,
- asininity,
- fatuity,
- foolery,
- idiocy,
- imbecility,
- inaneness,
- inanity,
- insanity,
- kookiness,
- lunacy
- applesauce
- [slang],
- balderdash,
- baloney
- (also boloney),
- beans,
- bilge,
- blah
- (also blah-blah),
- blarney,
- blather,
- blatherskite,
- blither,
- bosh,
- bull
- [slang],
- bunk,
- bunkum
- (or buncombe),
- claptrap,
- codswallop
- [British],
- crapola
- [slang],
- crock,
- drivel,
- drool,
- fiddle,
- fiddle-faddle,
- fiddlesticks,
- flannel
- [British],
- flapdoodle,
- folderol
- (also falderal),
- folly,
- foolishness,
- fudge,
- garbage,
- guff,
- hogwash,
- hokeypokey,
- hokum,
- hoodoo,
- hooey,
- horsefeathers
- [slang],
- humbug,
- humbuggery,
- jazz,
- malarkey
- (also malarky),
- moonshine,
- muck,
- nerts
- [slang],
- nonsense,
- nuts,
- piffle,
- poppycock,
- punk,
- rot,
- rubbish,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- slush,
- stupidity,
- taradiddle
- (or tarradiddle),
- tommyrot,
- tosh,
- trash,
- trumpery,
- twaddle
Antonyms & Near Antonyms for hoity-toity
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The first known use of hoity-toity was in 1668
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