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etepetete.

hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted

9 characters5 syllables approx.Deutsch language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˌeːtəpəˈteːtə/
  1. hoity-toity, finical, affected, stilted

    indeclinable · informal · predicative · usually
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from German Low German. A reduplication of öte (“affected, finical”), dialectally ete, possibly influenced by French peut-être (“maybe”).

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