highty-tighty

[hahy-tee-tahy-tee]

adjective

1. hoity-toity.

Example Sentences

“Highty-tighty! Is that the way you take my advice, Miss? You’ll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you’ve tried love in a cottage and found it a failure.”

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"Until then, I must act for him, and I forbid——" "Highty-tighty, and what's the matter here?" broke in a hearty voice behind them, at which they all turned in surprise.

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Patty's kind o' flighty, isn't she, and cracked on the men, although you wouldn't think it from her highty-tighty manner.

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It's 'nough to make one's blood run cold to see the highty-tighty airs that woman puts on.

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While the plump palms of Los Angeles' highty-tighty delighted to honor the Los Angeles Orchestra, neighbors from Hollywood's film colony stayed away in droves, and nobody was sorry.

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