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English
Interjection
hoity toity
- Alternative form of hoity-toity
1695, [William] Congreve, Love for Love: A Comedy. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC, Act III, scene x, page 46:Hoity toity, VVhat have I to do vvith his Dreams or his Divination—Body o' me, this is a Trick to defer Signing the Conveyance.
1762 December 8 (first performance), [Isaac Bickerstaffe], Love in a Village; a Comic Opera. , 4th edition, London: W. Griffin; for J Newbery, and W. Nicoll, ; G Kearsley, ; T Davies, ; and J. Walter, , published 1763, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, page 26:VVhy, here is nothing in the vvorld in this houſe but catter-vvavvling from morning till night, nothing but catter-vvavvling. Hoity toity! vvho have vve here?
1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Of the Proceedings of Nicholas, and Certain Internal Divisions in the Company of Mrs. Vincent Crummles”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1839, →OCLC, page 478:"I have some reason to fear," interrupted Nicholas, "that before you leave here my career with you will have closed." […] "Why, he don't mean to say he's going!" exclaimed Mrs. Grudden, making her way towards Mrs. Crummles. "Hoity toity! nonsense."