snooty

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

snoot=y

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective snooty has 1 sense

snooty(s = adj.all) bigheaded, persnickety, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"

Derived form noun snoot₁

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

snooty, adj. (snootier, snootiest) colloq. supercilious; conceited.

Derivative

snootily adv. snootiness n.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

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THESAURUS

snooty

arrogant, clannish, cliquish, condescending, contemptuous, contumelious, disdainful, exclusive, haughty, high-hat, patronizing, potty, priggish, scornful, sneering, sniffy, snippy, snobbish, snobby, snotty, supercilious, toploftical, toplofty, withering

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