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Stuck-up   /stək-əp/   Listen
Stuck-up

adjective
1.
(used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant.  Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, too big for one's breeches, uppish.  "They're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"






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"Stuck-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's a nasty, stuck-up, conceited little ape, that Maura White, or whatever her ridiculous name is. They pretend her father was an officer, but he was really a bad cousin of old Mr. White's that ran away; and her mother is not a lady—-a great fat disgusting woman, half a nigger; and Mr. White let her ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

... have never been able to understand Mr. Gowles's infatuation for this stuck-up creature, who, I am sure, gave herself airs enough, as any one ...
— In the Wrong Paradise • Andrew Lang

... see the brooks and ponds dimpled up all over, Like ter see the di'mon's shine on the bendin' clover, Like ter see the happy ducks in the puddles sailin' And the stuck-up rooster all ...
— Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse • Joseph C. Lincoln

... the cat's rocking-chair, in his gray stocking feet, and I threw down before him my full year's school report. It was pink, I remember, which was supposed to be the rosy color of success in our school; and I says: 'Pa! There's my report! And Pa,' I says, as bold and stuck-up as a brass weathercock on a new church, 'Pa! Teacher says that one of your boys has got to go to college!' And I was grinning all the while, I remember, ...
— The Indiscreet Letter • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... Army. Oh, I daresay they'll get in. But so will I—and in the same company with them. I wouldn't have missed this for anything. I'll be the thorn in Hal Overton's side the little while that he'll be in the service! I've more than to-day's business to settle with that stuck-up dude!" ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock


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