snooty
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(informal)Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
Đồng nghĩa: airy, arrogant, chesty, authoritarian, biggity, big-headed, blustery, boastful, bombastic, buggish, cocky, conceited, disdainful, domineering, egotistical, entitled, flatulent, flaunting, full of oneself, glorious, grandiose, hankty, haught, haughty, haut, high-handed, high-hat, high and mighty, highfalutin, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, hubristic, hubristical, imperious, inflated, insolent, la-di-da, orgulous, ostentatious, overbearing, overweening, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, priggish, puffed up, sanctimonious, self-important, snobbish, snooty, snotty, stout, stuck up, supercilious, thrasonic, thrasonical, toploftical, toplofty, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, uppy, upstage, vain
- 2.
(broadly, informal)Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
- 3.
(broadly, informal, uncommon)Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(informal, uncommon)Synonym of snoot (“an elitist or snobbish person”).
Đồng nghĩa: snoot
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The adjective is derived from snoot + -y, 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.