hoity-toity

They don’t appreciate the hoity-toity who look down on everyone else.

“It’s kind of hoity-toity,” said RJ Adams, an independent photographer from East New York.

For Nuez, the Federal Way snowboarder who has enjoyed Crystal Mountain, the Ikon Pass price hike reinforces the mountain’s reputation as catering to “a more hoity-toity crowd.”

“That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”

Rebelling against his hoity-toity, culture-vulture mother — who eventually shows up in the regal person of Cherry Jones — he prefers jazz piano and high-stakes poker to Henry James.