High-toby. See High Pad.
1834. Ainsworth, Rookwood, bk. III., ch. v. Oh! the game of High-Toby for ever.
High-toned, adj. (American).—Aristocratic; also, morally and intellectually endowed; spiritually beyond the common. High-souled = cultured; fashionable. High-toned nigger = a negro who has raised himself in social position. [Once literary; now utterly discredited and never used, save in ignorance or derision.] Stokes, the maniac who shot Garfield, described himself as a ‘High-Toned Lawyer.’
1884. Phillips Woolley, Trottings of a Tender Foot. I never saw any so-called high-toned niggers. [[315]]
1893. Cassell’s Sat. Jour., 1 Feb., p. 389, 1. One day a fashionably-dressed young man, giving an address in a high-toned suburb, called upon Messrs. Glitter.
Highty-tighty (or Hoity-toity), subs. (old).—A wanton.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hightetity, a Ramp, or Rude Girl.
1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.
Adj. (colloquial).—Peremptory; waspish; quarrelsome.
1848. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, ch. xviii. La, William, don’t be so highty-tighty with us. We’re not men.