Hoity Toity! Is that a compliment or an insult?

Question

Hoity Toity! Is that a compliment or an insult?

Answer 1

Insult in modern terms but originally meant frolicsome.

Answer 2

It's sort of an insult. It's more an opinion of how someone sees another person as s****.

Answer 3

Hoity-toity:

Snobbish, arrogant, condescending.

Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous.

No, I wouldn't take it as a compliment.

Answer 4

Insult- basically means you've got your head stuck up your a*se...not literally of course...

Answer 5

Insult - Stuck up  

Answer 6

The Words Foxtrot Oscar springs to mind. Oh not to you of course EJ.

Answer 7

An insult.It originally was Haut-toite,French for  'high-roof' ie To look down upon people.  

Answer 8

Insult meaning snobbish.  

Answer 9

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hoity...

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthrea...

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind...

Answer 10

A polite and old fashioned genuine insult.

Answer 11

Definitely an insult but certainly old-fashioned, quaint and rarely used anymore. Sounds like something my Dad, a World War II veteran, would have said!

It means someone that thinks they're better than others, a snob.

Answer 12

Pretentiously haughty or pompous insult unless of course you are a lager lout as they wouldn't mind being described as hoity-toity...lol

Answer 13

If you say it about someone it's an insult.....

If its said about you......

it's a compliment....

:)

Answer 14

it means you are a stuck up........ been called it loads of times just wish i could carry it off