Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. excellent, satisfactory, just right.

1925		The California Ramblers [song title] Everything Is Hotsy-Totsy Now.
1930		J.P. McEvoy Hollywood Girl 111: Gee, that’s hotsy.
1933		Hecht & Fowler Great Magoo 52: Everything’s hotsy-totsy, ’cause I got you.
1935		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Judgement Day in Studs Lonigan (1936) 519: Joey would come through [...] and it would end hotsy totsy.
1943		in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 354: Said a prominent lecherous Nazi, / ‘Our program may sound hotsy-totsy, / But a girl, when you diddle her, / Spreads her thighs with Heil Hitler! / And it all seems a little ersatzy.
1958		J. Blake letter 21 Aug. in Joint (1972) 121: I suppose you saw the story in The Paris Review, with the hotsy-totsy illustrations?
1960		(con. 1930s) R. Barber Night They Raided Minsky’s (1968) 181: So what’s so hotsy-totsy about some bimbo with her tits in a dither?
1972		(con. 1916) G. Swarthout Tin Lizzie Troop (1978) 165: ‘Did you have a good time in El Paso, sir?’ lisped Den Uyl. ‘Hotsy-totsy.’.
2000		Guardian Rev. 19 Feb. 4: He [...] seemed to be constantly engaged in sexual harassment with hotsy-totsy women.

2. of a place, sophisticated.

1925		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 1 Oct. [synd. col.] Quite a number of the hotsy-totsy joints are deserted.
1929		H.C. Witwer Yes Man’s Land 106: Why don’t you open a gym—a sort of hotsy-totsy athletic club for the picture bunch?

3. sexually provocative.

1994

P. Blauner Casino Moon 223: [S]he looked like a cheap Vegas showgirl [...] [S]he affected a hotsy-totsy walk like her pussy was a bowl with boiling soup threatening to spill over the sides.