hoity-toity n.1
1. an immodest, lively woman, a ‘romping girl’.
Longus 53: That wanton, untoward, malepert ramping and hoytie-toitie which he kept in the grove. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Hightetity a Ramp or Rude Girl. | ||
Homer in a nut-shell 16: I must (it seems) know nothing not I / Of what the silly Hoity-toity, / Thetis has now been difemboguing. | ||
in Pills to Purge Melancholy I 255: The Frowzy, Browzy, / Hoyty Toyty, / Covent-Garden Harridan. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
Fontainebleau in Dramatic Works (1798) II 262: My mother [...] was a fine lady, all upon the hoity-toities. | ||
Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue (3rd edn). | ||
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. sexual play or joking.
Fifteen Plagues of a Maiden-Head 8: To Labours, Christnings, where the Jollitry / Of Women lies in telling [...] When ’twas they did at Hoity-Toity play; / Who’s Husband’s Yard is longest. | ||
York Spy 10: Their pleasant Comical Hoity-Toities, their unpolish’d Behaviour, Apish Gestures, and Rural Nonsence. | ||
Laugh and Be Fat 2: His House-keeper’s sweetheart, who, by his pleasant comical Hoity-Toities, and other winning Accomplishments, had so wriggl’d himself into her Affections, that he had as much Command of her as her Master. | ||
Works (1794) I 301: Humph! What a pretty hoity toity’s here? | ‘The Lousiad’