"Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hoity-toity, child!" exclaimed old Mr. King, holding her closely. "Well, what have we here?"—as Polly led Rag up ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... are too clever a man to attempt the hoity-toity manner with me! You undoubtedly read all of Huntingdon's speeches with care, and you observed that his entire plea was for the states to allow the Federal Government to proceed in its normal function ...
— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow
... wasn't to trouble about that: he'd do well enough." He did not actually thank her for her preparations to make him comfortable, but discovered with a kind of indignant surprise that he had come very near to it. Somehow this woman, whom he had expected to find an ignorant fisher-wench, hoity-toity and brazen or tearful and sullen, was making him painfully conscious of his own boorishness. Out she must go, of course, after the funeral; but he wished he had seen a little more of good company in the past, and he kept up his temper by reminding himself that he had been ill-used ...
— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... name for coarseness; but Lady Dunborough's tongue was known in town. 'Ay, that smartens you, does it? 'she continued with cruel delight; for the girl had winced as from a blow. 'But here comes the landlord, and now out you go. Ay, into the streets, mistress! Hoity-toity, that dirt like you should sit at tables! ...
— The Castle Inn • Stanley John Weyman
... a hoity-toity sort o' voice, "me and the mate is going as far as Aldgate for a breath o' fresh air. ...
— Deep Waters, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
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