highty-tighty

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English

Adjective

highty-tighty (comparative more highty-tighty, superlative most highty-tighty)

Obsolete form of hoity-toity.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
  "La, William, don't be so highty-tighty with us. We're not men. We can't fight you," Miss Jane said.

References

“highty-tighty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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