snooty
Meanings
Plural: snooties
Adjective Satellite
- (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; -Laurent Le Sage
Adj
- Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
- Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
- Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Noun
- Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).
Origin / Etymology
The adjective is derived from snoot (“(UK, dialectal, and slang) snout; nose”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning ‘having the quality of’), probably referring to a snobbish person often having their nose in the air (that is, acting disdainfully towards others). Snoot is a dialectal variant of snout.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
airy, arrogant, authoritarian, big-headed, biggity, bigheaded, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high and mighty, high-handed, high-hat, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, persnickety, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snoot, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stout, stuck up, stuck-up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, too big for one's breeches, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
Scrabble Score: 9
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