snifty

Dayton examined them with an attempt to be discriminating, remarking that the book was for some California friends of his wife who were inclined to be "snifty" about Colorado flowers.

Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884

His best girl had been undeniably "snifty" to him.

A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Clytie said she'd do her best, but that spirits were mighty snifty and high-toned, even when they'd only been poor white trash on earth, and it might make them mad to be called away from their high jinks if they were taking a little recreation, or from their high-priced New York customers if they were working, to tend to cut-rate business.

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace Lorimer 1902

It's jest snifty; doubles me up like a jack-knife, Judge.

Prairie Folks Hamlin Garland 1900

It's jest snifty; doubles me up like a jack-knife, Judge.

The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Various 1888

Clytie said she'd do her best, but that spirits were mighty snifty and high-toned, even when they'd only been poor white trash on earth, and it might make them mad to be called away from their high jinks if they were taking a little recreation, or from their high-priced New York customers if they were working, to tend to cut-rate business.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887

It's sort o 'snifty fer new slush, but I don't complain. "

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"