snooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsnuːti/
ipa: /ˈsnuti/
ipa: [-ɾi]
rhymes: -uːti
Forms: form: snootier
form: snootiest
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.
Senses: examples: text: Sir Sydney was an arrogant, snooty, bigoted prig, so it was with some satisfaction that I wrote out his parking ticket.
text: I didn't like the way you looked at May Arnold, or the snooty way you talked.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XX, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, section I, page 252:
text: ever since she landed the National gig she's got very snooty about struggling theatre mates, as if she alone has discovered the secret to being successful
ref: 2019, Bernardine Evaristo, “Chapter 1 [Yazz]”, in Girl, Woman, Other, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 43:
synonyms: word: airy
word: arrogant
word: authoritarian
word: biggity
word: big-headed
word: blustery
word: boastful
word: bombastic
word: buggish
word: cocky
word: conceited
word: disdainful
word: domineering
word: egotistical
word: entitled
word: flatulent
word: flaunting
word: full of oneself
word: grandiose
word: hankty
word: haught
word: haughty
word: haut
word: high-handed
word: high-hat
word: high and mighty
word: highfalutin
word: hoity-toity
word: holier-than-thou
word: imperious
word: inflated
word: insolent
word: la-di-da
word: ostentatious
word: overbearing
word: overweening
word: pompous
word: presumptuous
word: pretentious
word: priggish
word: puffed up
word: sanctimonious
word: self-important
word: snobbish
word: snooty
word: snotty
word: stout
word: stuck up
word: supercilious
word: thrasonic
word: thrasonical
word: toploftical
word: toplofty
word: tumid
word: turgid
word: uppish
word: uppity
word: uppy
word: upstage
word: vain
antonyms: word: arrogant
word: immodest
glosses: Haughty, pompous, snobbish; inclined to turn up one's nose.
examples: text: Her parties were snooty affairs; custom-designed cocktail dresses that cost more than a decent luxury car were de rigueur.
text: The Mercury for 1959 firmly establishes itself as Ford Motor's flashy centerpiece in the middle-price field. […] It's snootier than the Edsel—and snootier than it was, itself, in 1958.
ref: 1958 December, Devon Francis, “What’s New with Edsel, Mercury, Lincoln”, in Howard Allaway, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 173, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Popular Science Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 78, column 1:
text: I grew up a privileged princess in Nob Hill, the snootiest neighborhood in San Francisco. My father's family had so much money they didn't know what to do with it.
ref: 2017, Janice Sims, One Fine Day (An Arabesque Novel), New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, page 128:
glosses: Of an event, a thing, etc.: elite, exclusive.
glosses: Easily angered or irritated; irritable, short-tempered.
Derived terms: english: probably
translation: probably
word: snoot
word: snootily
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