"Hoity-toity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hoity-toity!" said Dorothy, very sharply. (I don't think she had the slightest idea of what this meant, but she had read somewhere in a book that it was an expression used when other persons gave themselves airs, and she thought she would try the effect of it on the Mouse.) ...
— The Admiral's Caravan • Charles E. Carryl
... so definitely as an individual. To his satisfaction she had, on a few recent occasions when he had seen her, unbent sufficiently to talk to him in a friendly and even intimate way, for she was by no means hoity-toity, but a thinking, reasoning being of the profoundest intellectual, or, rather, the highest artistic tendencies. She was so care-free, living in a high and solitary world, at times apparently enwrapt in thoughts serene, at other times sharing vividly in the current ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... 'Hoity-toity!' responded Bazarov tranquilly. 'What magnanimous fellows we are! You still attach significance to marriage; I did not expect that ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
... mischievous fellow was out of earshot, but a chrysanthemum heard her, and said so pointedly, 'Hoity-toity, what is this?' that she had to come out and show herself. Then the whole vegetable kingdom was rather ...
— Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens • J. M. Barrie
... Hoity-toity! my dear Henry!—What is all this? How can you startle the "Constant Reader," of this cold world, by these ...
— The Gentle Art of Making Enemies • James McNeill Whistler
... astonished mother; and it will easily be believed that no one had ever said hoity-toity to ...
— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim
... night before, and had slept very late, had not yet made out the special diet list for the ward, and the men, faint and hungry, had had no breakfast. She denounced him at once in the strongest terms, and as he came in, and with an attempt at jollity inquired, "Hoity-toity, what's the matter?" she turned upon him with "Matter enough, you miserable scoundrel! Here these men, any one of them worth a thousand of you, are suffered to starve and die, because you want to be off ...
— Woman's Work in the Civil War - A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience • Linus Pierpont Brockett |
