Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Snobbish; conceited.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Offensively proud or conceited; puffed up; consequential.
- noun Same as
strap-ouster .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective colloq. Self-important and supercilious, �onceited; vain; arrogant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
stuck up .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant
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Examples
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“Who you calling stuck-up when you all up in other people’s business?”
Drama Queens ReShonda Tate Billingsley 2010
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First Impression: Nicole is described as a stuck-up, rude, and intolerable woman who doesn’t have many friends.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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First Impression: Nicole is described as a stuck-up, rude, and intolerable woman who doesn’t have many friends.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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The cousins were a boy and a girl and they were older and stuck-up.
The Perfumed Kitten Con Chapman 2011
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Magnate -- a high and stuck-up beauty, who is now my squaw.
Page 7 2010
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But you need to get to the stuck-up collectors to get to those prices.
Model Philanthropist 2011
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My disgust toward Megan Fox has nothing to do with her thumbs, and everything to do with the fact that she's just a raunchy, stuck-up brat who had the nerve to compare herself to Alan Alda.
Megan Fox is hideously disgusting Tyler 2009
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Hanna is the one who's changed the most so far out of all the girls going from the popular, stuck-up, snobby girl to the down-to-earth girl ...
Pretty Little Liars' Ashley Benson: "A" Makes Hanna Do Something Horrible 2011
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"That stuck-up doll-face," was the way the girls of the neighbourhood described her; and though she earned their enmity by her beauty and aloofness, she none the less commanded their respect.
Chapter 2 2010
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Most admit that Gorman is a nice enough fellow, very intelligent, and in person doesn't come across as the the type of stuck-up jerk who gets crazy when you call him Jim instead of James.
Charles Gasparino: Does Morgan Stanley's James "Don't Call Me Jim" Gorman Have What it Takes? Charles Gasparino 2011
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